Legal Opinion
Congregation of the Roman Catholic Church of Ascension v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana
Decided February 18, 1890PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Equity. On demurrer to the bill
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The complainant alleges that it is a body corporate, composed of all the residents of the parish of Ascension, of the state of Louisiana, professing the Roman Catholic faith, and the citizens of such state, organized under the general corporation laws thereof; that, by an act of the legislature of the state of Louisiana approved March 1, 1856, a corporation was created under the name and style of “The Congregation of the Roman Catholic Church of Ascension,” to be composed of all the white Roman Catholics of the parish of Ascension, with the corporate power to acquire and hold property, and…
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