Fluker Community Church v. Hitchens
Supreme Court of Louisiana
1Opinion of the Court
419 So.2d 445 (1982)
FLUKER COMMUNITY CHURCH
v.
F. B. HITCHENS, et al.
No. 81-C-3286.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
September 7, 1982.
Lawrence Blake Jones, Scheuermann & Jones, New Orleans, for applicant.
Nelson D. Taylor, Gail Horne Ray, Baton Rouge, Gilbert Stampley, New Orleans, for respondents.
DENNIS, Justice.
This case presents the question of whether a local church which has disaffiliated from an international hierarchical church may have the latter enjoined from erecting a building on property of which the rebel local church is the titleholder. After the trial court confirmed the local church's…
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