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...
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