Saturday, May 21, 2011

FT. WORTH:Judge Orders Parties to negotiate terms of Fort Worth Supersedeas Bond

FT. WORTH: Judge Orders Parties to negotiate terms of Fort Worth Supersedeas Bond

By Suzanne Gill
Diocese of Ft. Worth
May 20, 2011

Efforts by local Episcopal Church parties were frustrated at several points during today's court hearing, which once again failed to resolve the question of the amount of a supersedeas bond.

Early in the hearing the Hon. John Chupp announced his decision to deny the TEC group's motion to strike four affidavits submitted in support of the Diocese for a $0 bond. With those affidavits remaining in evidence, counsel for the Diocese argued that there are no funds available for a bond, since the court's judgment earlier this year awarded all property in the diocesan Corporation to the local TEC minority.

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