Creel v. Martin

SHORES, Justice.

Edward H. Creel, Jr., appeals from a decree appointing the Central Baptist Church as successor trustee of the Keith/Central Baptist Church Cemetery and the grant of a permanent injunction barring Creel from interfering with the operation of the cemetery. We affirm.

The Central Baptist Church was organized in 1852 and acquired title to an acre of land near Argo, Alabama, on which the church was established, from Lemuel Keith on November 20, 1852. Since that time, the church has continued to grow and prosper.

On November 16, 1898, Jefferson Keith and his wife, V.E. Keith, by deed…