FLUKER COMMUNITY CHURCH v. HITCHENS

No. 14340.

405 So.2d 1223 (1981)

FLUKER COMMUNITY CHURCH v. F. B. HITCHENS, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Blake Jones, New Orleans, for plaintiff.

Nelson Taylor, Baton Rouge, and Gilbert E. Stampley, New Orleans, for defendant, African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Before COVINGTON, COLE and WATKINS, JJ.


WATKINS, Judge.

This is a suit for a permanent injunction to prevent the building of a church on land in Fluker, Tangipahoa Parish, which plaintiff, Fluker Community Church, an unincorporated association, contends that it owns. Made defendants are the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.), a religious corporation organized under the laws of Pennsylvania, the Rev. Simon Hookfin, the local A.M.E. minister and B. F. Hitchens, the Presiding Elder of A.M.E., who...

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