ENTERPRISE LODGE NO. 352 K. P. v. FIRST BAPT. CH. (COL.)

SC 721.

298 So.2d 17 (1974)

ENTERPRISE LODGE NO. 352 OF the KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, INC., an association v. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (COLORED) OF EVERGREEN, Alabama, suing By and Through its trustees, O. F. Frazier, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham, Edwin C. Page, Jr., Evergreen, for appellant.

William D. Melton, Evergreen, for appellees.


MADDOX, Justice.

A Masonic Lodge and a Baptist Church both claim ownership of a two-story building located in Evergreen. The matter has been here before. Enterprise Lodge No. 352, etc. v. First Baptist Church (Colored) of Evergreen, 288 Ala. 592, 264 So.2d 153 (1972). The church won in the lower court before, but this Court reversed and remanded, holding that the church, an unincorporated association, could not hold title to real...

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