GOODSON v. NORTHSIDE BIBLE CHURCH

Civ. A. No. 3926-65.

261 F.Supp. 99 (1966)

W. Kenneth GOODSON, as Presiding Bishop of the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the Methodist Church, Powers McLeod, as District Superintendent of the Mobile District of the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the Methodist Church, Board of Trustees of the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the Methodist Church, a corporation, Plaintiffs, v. NORTHSIDE BIBLE CHURCH, a corporation, E. C. Persons, Stanley B. Daugherty and Alvin W. Blount, as trustees of Northside Bible Church, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Alabama, S. D.

November 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry H. Riddick, Hamilton, Denniston, Butler & Riddick, Mobile, Ala., Albert W. Copeland, Hobbs, Copeland, Franco, Riggs & Screws, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Pierre Pelham, Mobile, Ala., for defendants.


OPINION AND JUDGMENT

DANIEL HOLCOMBE THOMAS, Chief Judge.

By per curiam opinion and order entered in this cause on the 18th day of November 1966, the three-judge-court convened herein determined that the case was not appropriate for a three-judge-court, but was one to be determined by a single district judge, since no injunctive relief was sought against any officer of the State of Alabama, as required for proceeding under Section 2281 et seq...

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