Guin v. Johnson

BQULDIN, Justice.

This cause grew out of division in Unity Grove Church, a Freewill Baptist Church, in Lamar county.

The bill involves the possession and use of the church building and grounds, as between contending factions.

Complainants seek to enjoin respondents from the continued use and enjoyment of same, and their interference with complainants’ use of same for religious services.

The bill proceeds on two theories:

First, it is alleged that the minority group or faction of the church, congregational in type, has usurped control of the property, undertaken to exclude complainants from the…