From ELO-
Bishop C. Wallis Ohl said Sept. 9 that he is optimistic about the progress of litigation over disputed property and assets in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, after several recent court actions.
But he added that the ongoing litigation between the diocese and a breakaway group "is not the center of our diocesan life."
Ohl referred to a Texas judge's Sept. 2 decision to grant the Episcopal diocese's motion to "abate" or to halt a lawsuit involving a disputed bequest to a parish in 355th District Court in Hood County.
The case will be heard instead by 141st District Court Judge John P. Chupp in neighboring Tarrant County where a lawsuit to resolve issues about diocesan authority and church property is pending, according to a Sept. 8 statement released by the diocese.
The Episcopal diocese and the Episcopal Church had sued former bishop Jack Iker and former members of the corporation of the diocese's board in 141st District Court in Tarrant County in April 2009, to recover property and assets held by the former diocesan leaders.
The lawsuit also intended to establish that the continuing diocese was entitled to the use and benefit of property acquired by and for the mission of the Episcopal Church, established in 1838 in the Fort Worth area.
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