Case ID: ga-app_27/html/0572-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

12598.
    Green et al. v. Young Zion Baptist Church.
    Decided November 16, 1921.
    Foreclosure of lien; from Kichmond superior court — Judge Henry C. Hammond. May 17, 1931.
    The petition names as defendant “the Young Zion Baptist Church,” and alleges that “defendant is a Baptist church of said State and county.” The demurrer is upon the grounds, among others, that “there are no proper parties defendant,” and that the petition “ does not allege that defendant is a corporation, or, if not a corporation, name the members who compose the partnership.”
   Luke, J.

“No action can be maintained against a religious society when sued as such, when such society has not been incorporated, nor had recorded its name and objects as provided by law. The members of such society are liable on its contracts as joint promisors or partners.” Thurmond v. Cedar Spring Baptist Church, 110 Ga. 816 (36 S. E. 221), and cases cited. It was not error for the court to dismiss the plaintiff’s petition upon the grounds of demurrer urged.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.

T. S. Lyons, for plaintiff.

C. H. & R. S. Cohen, for defendant.