AFRICAN METH. EPISCOPAL CHURCH v. STEWART

No. 2009 CA 0405.

28 So.3d 1044 (2009)

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, INC. v. Rev. Larry STEWART.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied December 18, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Hogan, Jr., Hammond, LA, for Defendants/Appellants, Larry Stewart and Rising Star Community Church.

Cassandra Butler, Independence, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Inc.

Before DOWNING, GAIDRY and McCLENDON, JJ.


DOWNING, J.

Reverend Larry Stewart, pastor of the Rising Star Community Church1 (Rising Star), and Rising Star appeal a judgment decreeing that title to the disputed property at issue is vested in the Annual Conference of African Methodist Episcopal Church in Louisiana and Mississippi (L & M A.M.E.), the denominational hierarchy. For the following reasons, we reverse the trial court judgment in this regard, and we declare Rising Star...

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