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BOARD OF CHURCH EXTENSION v. EADS

No. 13640.

230 S.E.2d 911 (1976)

BOARD OF CHURCH EXTENSION and Home Missions of the Church of God, Inc. v. Percy EADS et al., as Trustees of the Gilboa Church of God and Rosetta King as Pastor, etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

December 21, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy N. Barber, Charleston, for appellants.

Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell, Thomas E. Potter, J. Randolph Query, Peggy O'Neal Hart, Charleston, for appellee.

NEELY, Justice:

This case involves a dispute between a national organ of the Church of God and a local congregation. The national organ claims title to local church property through the operation of reverter1 clauses in the deeds by which the local congregation first came into possession of the church property. The local congregation, defendants below, resisted the claim of the national organ...

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