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MORONEY v. ST. JOHN MISSIONARY BAPTIST

No. 14-20-00203-CV.

636 S.W.3d 698 (2021)

Linda MORONEY, Appellant v. ST. JOHN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, INC., aka St. John Missionary Baptist Church, as Successor and Assignee of St. John Colored Baptist Church, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Denied January 27, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Iain Gordon Simpson , Houston, for Appellant.

Wayne H. Paris , Claude Smalling III , Houston, for Appellee.

Panel consists of Justices Wise, Bourliot, and Zimmerer.

OPINION

This case involves competing requests for declarations concerning the interpretation of a deed in which the grantor conveyed to the grantee a possessory estate while retaining a reversionary interest. We hold that the trial court erred by declaring that the grantor's interest terminated upon his death. Thus,...

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