A splintered state Supreme Court has upheld a trial court’s ruling that gave ownership of a rural southeastern Georgia African Methodist Episcopal church building to the church’s national denomination, not to the local church itself.
The court’s seven justices split in several directions over various questions from the case, such as whether to rely on the national congregation’s governing Book of Discipline and also which appellate court has jurisdiction over questions of the control of local church property-the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals.
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