Carlson v. Fox

It has been repeatedly ruled that a court of equity will not interfere with the internal affairs of a religious organization, when no property rights are involved, for the reason that civil courts have no jurisdiction of such matters and can not take jurisdiction of them, whether they have been adjudicated by the ecclesiastical courts, i. e., church tribunals, or not. Gibson v. Singleton, 149 Ga. 502 (101 S. E. 178); Hall v. Henry, 159 Ga. 80 (124 S. E. 883); McCluskey v. Rakestraw, 164 Ga. 30 (137 S. E. 394).

It is insisted that property rights are here involved, and therefore that the civil…