Case ID: misc_182/html/0851-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wenzel, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Church of God World Headquarters, Inc. Homer Tomlinson, Petitioner.
    Supreme Court, Special Term, Queens County,
    February 21, 1944.
    
      Homer Tomlinson, petitioner in person.
   Wenzel, J.

I have before me for approval a certificate of incorporation offered by a group of coreligionists who wish to be known by the title “ Church of God World Headquarters, Inc. ’ ’

The fact that all the incorporators but one are residents of Queens might seem to make the words World Headquarters ” a trifle grandiose, bnt these words might of course refer to the incorporators’ ambitions rather than to their present sphere of influence. The appellation “ Church of God ”, however, is one which the incorporators should not be permitted to arrogate to their own exclusive use by adoption as a corporate name. It is a generic term. Every church worthy of the name is a Church of God ” regardless of its sect or creed. We speak generally of “a House of God ” and the Church of God ” in connection with every institution of divine worship. Application denied.