State ex rel. Long v. Board of Deacons of Good Hope Second Baptist Church
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on relation of George F. Long and others, against the Board of Deacons of the Good Hope Second Baptist Church of Algiers, to compel the Board to call an election for the Board of Deacons or Trustees and other officers of the corporation.
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Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on relation of George F. Long and others, against the Board of Deacons of the Good Hope Second Baptist Church of Algiers, to compel the Board to call an election for the Board of Deacons or Trustees and other officers of the corporation. Election ordered, and respondents’ motion for an appeal therefrom denied, and on relators’ rule against respondents to show cause why report of commissioners of election should not be approved and officers declared elected, judgment was rendered for relators, and…
1Opinion of the Court
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
O’NIELL, J.
The relators, as members of the religious corporation styled Good Hope Second Baptist Church of Algiers, La., proceeded by mandamus to compel the board of deacons or trustees to call a meeting of the members of the congregation to elect a board of deacons or trustees, a secretary and a treasurer of the corporation.
The district judge issued a rule, ordering the defendant board to comply with the demand of the relators or show cause to the contrary on the 11th of June, 1915. The respondent board filed several pleas, exceptions and an answer, on which the…
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