NORTHSIDE BIBLE CHURCH v. GOODSON

No. 24421.

387 F.2d 534 (1967)

NORTHSIDE BIBLE CHURCH et al., Appellants, v. W. Kenneth GOODSON et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 7, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pierre Pelham, Mobile, Ala., for appellants.

Albert W. Copeland, Montgomery, Ala., Harry H. Riddick, Mobile, Ala., Alto V. Lee, III, Dothan, Ala., for appellees, Hamilton, Denniston, Butler & Riddick, Mobile, Ala., Lee & McInish, Dothan, Ala., Hobbs, Copeland, Franco, Riggs & Screws, Montgomery, Ala., of counsel.

Before RIVES, GOLDBERG and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question of the constitutionality of an Alabama statute which would authorize a majority of a local church organization to withdraw local church property from the use and control of the parent church organization. The court below, in an able opinion, held the statute unconstitutional on the ground that it was contrary to the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

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