Legal Opinion

Sentell v. Friendship Baptist Church No. 2

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 25, 1926No. 7 Div. 624PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.

The bill is for injunction as affecting the use of the temporal properties of a Baptist church.

The recent statute permits that action or suit be maintained by and in the name of an unincorporated organization or association. ■ Thus is met the announcement contained in G. I. B. L. E. v. Green, 206 Ala. 196, 89 So. 435, and as the case of G. I. B. L. E. v. Green, 210 Ala. 496, 98 So. 569, indicates. In the last decision in the Green Case, supra, the declaration is contained that the Act of October 28, 1921, p. 15, did'not impair the obligation of contracts or affect vested rights (as to past…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Gewin v. Mt. Pilgrim Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
  2. Blount v. Sixteenth St. Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of Alabama · 1921
  3. Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. GreenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1923
  4. Harris v. CosbySupreme Court of Alabama · 1911
  5. Hope of Alabama Lodge of Odd Fellows v. ChamblessSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Mitchell v. Church of Christ at Mt. OliveSupreme Court of Alabama · 1929
  2. Vaughn v. Pansey Friendship Primitive Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of Alabama · 1949
  3. Hamner v. Carroll's Creek Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of Alabama · 1951
  4. Bailey v. WashingtonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1938
  5. Canterbury v. CanterburyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1957

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