McKinney v. Twenty-Fifth Ave. Baptist Ch., Inc.

This is an appeal by defendants, 23 members of the Twenty-fifth Avenue Baptist Church ("Church"), from an order of the Jefferson County Circuit Court scheduling a new election for the purpose of enabling the congregation of the Church to decide who shall be expelled from Church membership and from an order requiring an accounting of all Church funds. We affirm.

The plaintiffs, individually and as trustees of the Church, filed a "petition for temporary injunction, permanent injunction and other relief" asserting that the defendants were expelled from membership in the Church on January 5, 1986,…