EX PARTE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH

1011947.

860 So.2d 870 (2003)

Ex parte AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH et al. (In re African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church a/k/a African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America, Inc., et al. v. Simmons Chapel Church et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 17, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Meadows III of Capell & Howard, P.C., Opelika, for petitioners.

Jim L. DeBardelaben of DeBardelaben & Westry, P.C., Montgomery, for respondents.


HOUSTON, Justice.

This appeal involves a property dispute in an action brought by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church ("AME Zion Church") against the congregation of Simmons Chapel Church, which is located in Macon County. The trial court granted Simmons Chapel's motion to dismiss and determined that Simmons Chapel owned the property on which the church building was located. We issued a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Civil Appeals' affirmance, without...

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