Blount v. Sixteenth St. Baptist Church
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; Hugh A. Locke, Judge. Bill by tbe Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a corporation, against R. A. Blount and others, to enjoin interference with the Church property and prohibit certain parties from governing the Church. From a decree declining to discharge the injunction and overruling pleas in abatement, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; Hugh A. Locke, Judge. Bill by tbe Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a corporation, against R. A. Blount and others, to enjoin interference with the Church property and prohibit certain parties from governing the Church. From a decree declining to discharge the injunction and overruling pleas in abatement, defendants appeal. After citing and quoting extensively from Pendleton’s Manual of the Baptist Church, counsel insists that the deacons, or trustees, or both, -without special authority delegated to them by the conference of the majority Of the…
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The bill by tbe Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a corporation, was against certain of its members and one other not a member, and prayed injunction to prevent them or their servants, attorneys, and agents from interfering with the pastor and other named officers of the church in conducting and providing for the services held, from interfering in the use and occupation of the church and control -thereof by its board of deacons, from interfering with said board and the appointment of and invitation to ministers to fill said pulpit, and from interfering with said named officers in the control…
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