ROSE HILL BAPTIST CHURCH v. JONES

No. 82-389.

425 So.2d 348 (1982)

ROSE HILL BAPTIST CHURCH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jake JONES, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brent Gore, Ferriday, for defendant-appellant.

Lyman S. Gore, Jr., Vidalia, for plaintiffappellee.

Before GUIDRY, CUTRER and STOKER, JJ.


GUIDRY, Judge.

Rose Hill Baptist Church (hereafter the Church), an unincorporated religious association, filed this suit to enjoin Jake Jones, Jr. from acting as pastor of the Church. Jones filed an exception of lack of jurisdiction over subject matter. In this exception, he alleged that the matter was purely ecclesiastical and, as such, the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, forbids...

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