Hatcher v. South Carolina District Council of the Assemblies of God, Inc.

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• civil courts will accept as conclusive the decision of a legally constituted ecclesiastical tribunal having jurisdiction of the matter absent fraud, collusion, or arbitrariness
• a purely ecclesiastical matter is to be determined by church tribunals alone; matters purely of property rights by the civil courts alone
• court’s authority extended to determining whether the Presbytery’s actions in ousting the plaintiffs as members of a congregation and thus foreclosing them of any rights as beneficiaries of a trust created for the benefit of that congregation resulted from arbitrariness

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