Posted on 05/31/2007 11:32:44 AM PDT by PAR35
The Ohio attorney general's office has sided with Eastminster Presbytery in a lawsuit brought against it by a church seeking to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA) with its property.
The response filed by Attorney General Marc Dann seeks a summary judgment declaring that Hudson Presbyterian Church in Hudson, Ohio, holds all of its property and assets in a charitable trust that must "provide the public with a PCUSA-style church with the attendant community benefits of such a church."
The summary judgment, Dann argues, also should declare that Hudson Presbyterian Church "may not apply the corpus of that trust for a purpose that is inconsistent with the purpose of providing the public with a PCUSA-style church." Dann also requests that a court-appointed receiver administer the trust until a new trustee is appointed because Hudson Presbyterian Church "can no longer serve as trustee over that trust property."
(Excerpt) Read more at layman.org ...
http://www.layman.org/layman/news/2007-news/oag-msj.pdf
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