The Protestant Episcopal Church v. the Episcopal Church

Summary

The South Carolina Supreme Court held that the 2017 Court did not make a final decision on ownership of the twenty‑nine parish properties, so the circuit court's parish‑by‑parish determinations were reviewed; it affirmed that the trustees’ real and personal property is held for the Associated Diocese, and it applied the express‑accession rule to decide which parishes created trusts, finding ten trusts (two revocable and later revoked) and nineteen none, and declared the opinion non‑precedential.