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GOODWIN v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

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225 Ga. 448 (1969)

169 S.E.2d 334

GOODWIN et al. v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF AUGUSTA et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided July 10, 1969.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cumming, Nixon, Eve, Waller & Capers, Joseph B. Cumming, for appellants.

Fulcher, Fulcher, Hagler, Harper & Reed, Edwin D. Fulcher, Hull, Towill & Norman, Robert C. Norman, for appellees.

GRICE, Justice.

This is a controversy over the sale of church property and removal of the church to a new location. A class action was filed by Mamie Bland Goodwin and 16 other members of the First Baptist Church of Augusta in the Superior Court of Richmond County, naming as defendants the church, its minister and certain of its officers and trustees. The complaint sought an injunction to prohibit the sale of real estate on which the sanctuary is situated and the...

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