CANTRELL v. ANDERSON


390 S.W.2d 176 (1965)

George CANTRELL et al., Appellants, v. Hiram ANDERSON et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 12, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. L. Hibbits, Pikeville, Glyn R. Phillips, Clintwood, Va., Robert T. Winston, Jr., Norton, Va., J. Ervin Sanders, Sanders & Redwine, Pikeville, for appellants.

Francis Dale Burke, Pikeville, for appellees.


CLAY, Commissioner.

This is a controversy over the right to the use of church property. It was initiated by a minority group against a majority group on the ground that the latter had departed from fundamental doctrines of the original church. The trial court so found and adjudged that the plaintiff appellees were the owners and entitled to the possession of the property.

In 1947 eight or ten persons organized the Hylton Church of the Old Regular Baptists...

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