New Zion Baptist Church v. Strain

This is a possessory action filed by members of an unincorporated religious society, known as the New Zion Baptist Church. The petitioners set forth that the New Zion Baptist Church is the owner of one acre of land with improvements thereon, in the Sixth Ward of the Parish of East Feliciana, State of Louisiana, having acquired this property by purchase from one Laurence Odom on June 4, 1946, as per deed in Book U-2, Folio 537-538; that there is located on this land the church building of plaintiffs' unincorporated religious society which is known as New Zion Baptist Church; that on or about…