Legal Opinion
Walters v. Stewart
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Decided June 21, 2002No. 2001011PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Per curiam
Alford Walters, the pastor of the New Life Fellowship Church, an unincorporated religious association in Mobile County, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of Rose Stewart, Joe A. Hicks, and Marie Adair. Stewart, Hicks, and Adair are members or former members of the Bread of Life Church, the nominal predecessor of the New Life Fellowship Church. The three individuals sued to compel Walters to resign his pas-torship of the New Life Fellowship Church and to relinquish control of disputed church property.
In 1990, John Loper founded the Bread of Life Church in Mobile…
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