Hickman v. Booker

Nichols, Justice.

The original complaint alleged facts which authorized the grant of the ex parte restraining order. The plaintiffs right to the benefits of his office as pastor of the Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church were allegedly being interfered with in violation of the provisions of the 1968 AME Discipline. While courts of equity will not generally interfere with the internal affairs of a church (Edwards v. Thomas, 204 Ga. 766 (51 SE2d 855)), yet where property rights are involved, equity will take jurisdiction, and in the present case where the plaintiffs salary as pastor of…