Kathy Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery, et al.

── Kathy Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery, et al. ── Case No.: 19A-PL-00243 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: October 30, 2019 Author: Judge Robert Altice County of Origin: Ripley Category: Civil Decision: Affirmed Judge Vaidik concurs. Judge Kirsch dissents Case Summary Kathy Salyer filed a complaint against the Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery (the Cemetery) seeking to have a gravesite she purchased returned to her after the Cemetery sold the gravesite a second time and another individual was buried there. Following a bench trial, the trial court awarded Salyer an open gravesite rather than the gravesite she had purchased over thirty years prior that had since been mistakenly resold for the burial of another.