Legal Opinion
Williams v. Jones
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided October 23, 1952No. 6 Div. 313PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAWSON, Justice.
This litigation grows out of a dispute in a colored Baptist church in Jefferson County, known as the Twenty-Second Avenue Baptist Church.
Before treating of the question at hand, we think it wise to refer to certain general principles established by our cases dealing with church matters. ■
It is firmly established that courts decline to assume any jurisdiction as regards the purely ecclesiastical or spiritual feature of the church. Hundley v. Collins, 131 Ala. 234, 32 So. 575; Gewin v. Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church, 166 Ala. 345, 51 So. 947; Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church v.…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Watson v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Bouldin v. AlexanderSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Gewin v. Mt. Pilgrim Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
- Blount v. Sixteenth St. Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of Alabama · 1921
- Hundley v. CollinsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1901
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Reid v. JohnstonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1954
- Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church v. NixonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1976
- TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN, ETC. v. TankersleySupreme Court of Alabama · 1979
- Higgs v. BoleSupreme Court of Alabama · 2012
- Yates v. El Bethel Primitive Baptist ChurchSupreme Court of Alabama · 2002
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