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FOSTER v. ST. JOHN'S BAPTIST CHURCH, INC.

80-419.

406 So.2d 389 (1981)

Hugh L. FOSTER v. ST. JOHN'S BAPTIST CHURCH, INC., etc., et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bob E. Allen, Montgomery, for appellant.

John Ben Jones, III, Lanett, for appellees.

BEATTY, Justice.

Appeal from an order enjoining a pastor from occupying the pulpit of a church. We affirm.

The case concerns a dispute between pro and anti-pastor members of a Baptist Church congregation. The defendant, Hugh L. Foster, became pastor of the St. John's Baptist Church in 1975, and shortly thereafter hostility to his pastorate led to factionalism and ultimately to a lawsuit filed in 1977. That controversy was resolved by a judicially supervised...

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