Squaire v. Polk

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff alleges “that the St. Mary Baptist Church (colored) is an unincorporated voluntary association,” and that he “was employed as a pastor of said church in the year 1932, and that, as pastor of said church there is due him the sum of $100.00.”

He also avers that the said church is indebted to him in the further sum of $140.-43, made up of the following items:

$106.43 paid by him “on account of the said church to the Singer Company of this city for lumber and material furnished said church,” $25 for a piano, and $9 for a pulpit chair.

Plaintiff selects some seventeen persons…