Bell v. Williams

STEAGALL, Justice.

Fourteen allegedly expelled members of the Mount Olive Baptist Church, Inc., appeal from an order of the Jefferson County Circuit Court denying their motion to intervene on behalf of the church in a lawsuit involving a dispute between the church’s pastor and nine other members of the church.1 Henry L. Williams, Cora Glasper, Jake Glasper, Cleola Adams, Wiley Payne, Gerald Payne, John Pierce, Cint-hia Parks, Extra Bell Pierce, and Mary Ann Parks (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the Williams group”), filed a petition on November 8, 1988, in the circuit court, seeking…