Grantham v. Humphries

This litigation is between two factions of the Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Neshoba county. The question involved is the use of the church building and its records for religions worship. Appellant, the Reverend Grantham, was the pastor in charge, and the other appellants, Hall, Willis, and Thompson, were the deacons. The Reverend Grantham “went Fundamentalist.” The opposing and controlling faction in the membership had a meeting at which they discharged the Reverend Grant-ham as pastor because of the new doctrine and also the deacons named, who were his adherents, and elected in their…