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SONES v. SONES CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH

No. 2005-CA-02079-COA.

946 So.2d 833 (2007)

Laura Davis SONES, Appellant v. SONES CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH by and Through its Clerk and Treasurer, Adrian LUMPKIN, Jr., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

January 16, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Loewer Hall, Hattiesburg, attorney for appellant.

Candance L. Rickman, William E. Andrews, Purvis, attorney for appellee.

Before MYERS, P.J., CHANDLER and ROBERTS, JJ.

ROBERTS, J., for the Court.

SUMMARY OF THE CASE

¶ 1. In 1922, Sones Chapel Baptist Church was deeded the land upon which its sanctuary had stood for more than twenty years. As it turned out, the legal description in the deed was inaccurate, and in 1978 the original grantor's successors in interest agreed to a deed exchange to correct the inaccuracy. Included in the deed back to the Church was a reverter clause stipulating that if the Church "cease[d...

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