Legal Opinion
Mt. Zion Baptist Ass'n v. Mt. Zion Baptist Church 1 of Revilletown Park
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 31, 2016No. 2016 CA 0151PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChutz, J.
LThe critical issue in this appeal is whether the plaintiff-appellant, Mount Zion Baptist Association, an unincorporated association (hereinafter “MZBA”), has procedural capacity to prosecute the instant lawsuit. Concluding it did not, the trial court sustained a dilatory exception raising the objection of lack of procedural capacity and dismissed the lawsuit. For the following reasons, we affirm the dismissal of the lawsuit but amend the trial court’s judgment to provide that the dismissal shall be without prejudice.
PROCEDURAL AND FACTUAL BACKGROUND
On October 8, 2012, Mount Zion Baptist…
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