Redden v. State

The First Baptist Church of Bay Minette ("the Church") and Margaret Ann Boone Redden and Kyle Redden, by two complaints, sued the State of Alabama, naming as defendants the Alabama Department of Conservation; James E. Martin, commissioner of the Department of Conservation; and Governor Fob James (referred to as "the State"). The plaintiffs sought to quiet title to two noncontiguous parcels of land in Baldwin County and sought a judgment declaring that title to those parcels had reverted to them as successors in interest. The case was tried without a jury, on the issue whether the State had…