CHIMNEY VILLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH v. JOHNSON

No. 95-819.

665 So.2d 730 (1995)

CHIMNEY VILLE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF GARLAND, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Rev. Luke JOHNSON, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 6, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Achille Gaudin, Opelousas, for Chimney Ville Missionary Baptist Church.

Benjamin O. Burns, Lafayette, for Rev. Luke Johnson et al.

Robert Wayne Daigle, Lafayette, for First General Services of Southwest La.

Before KNOLL, THIBODEAUX and AMY, JJ.


THIBODEAUX, Judge.

This case arises from dissension among the deacon board members, pastor, and congregation of the Chimney Ville Missionary Baptist Church, a nonprofit corporation based in Garland, Louisiana on the question of who has the ultimate authority to decide the relocation of the church. The deacon board, acting as the corporation's Board of Directors, ratified an agreement entered into with a contractor by a member of the deacon board and an officer of...

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