MARS HILL CH. OF ANNISTON, ALABAMA, INC. v. MISSIONARY BAPTIST

1972232 and 1980170.

761 So.2d 975 (1999)

MARS HILL BAPTIST CHURCH OF ANNISTON, ALABAMA, INC. v. MARS HILL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 3, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Collins Pettaway, Jr., and April England of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders & Pettaway, P.C., Selma, for appellant.

Donald W. Stewart, Jason Knowles, and Susanna B. Smith of Stewart & Smith, P.C., Anniston, for appellee.


MADDOX, Justice.

These appeals involve a contentious and procedurally complex dispute between two factions of a once united church congregation, Mars Hill Missionary Baptist Church ("Mars Hill Missionary Baptist"). They arise out of an action filed by the church charging a chemical company, the Monsanto Corporation ("Monsanto"), with extensive contamination of the church site with polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB. After the action was filed, Monsanto agreed to a settlement...

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