State v. Immanuel Presbyterian Church

Citations

• 52 La. Ann. 1311

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>The District Court is without authority to take the property of a religious corporation, equipped with a regular Board of Trustees, out of the latter’s hands, and place it in the hands of a receiver, by an ex parte order rendered upon the allegations of an unverified petition, and without the production of any evidence in support of the same.</p> <p>This is specially the case where the relators do not belong to the congregation and have no pecuniary interest in the property or in its administration. The fact that the State of Louisiana is one of the relators, and that the receivership is asked as an incidental proceeding in a suit for the forfeiture of the church’s charter, does not affect the question.</p>