Legal Opinion
First Free Will Baptist Church of Blountstown, Inc. v. Franklin
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided October 21, 1941PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, J.
The record here discloses that the Blountstown First Free Will Baptist Church was organized during the year 1919, and on July 26, 1920, G. F. Tucker and wife, Mary Ida Tucker, conveyed to the First Free Will Baptist Church of Blountstown, and E. S. Streetman and J. W. Causey, Deacons of said Church, and their successors, certain real estate situated in the Town of Blountstown; and an old school house was converted into a church building and religious services were held therein for a number of years; and in 1933 or 1934 the church roll contained approximately one hundred members.
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