Washington v. Crowson

RODGERS, Justice:

This cause of action involves the claim of certain individuals acting as trustees, in an alleged church organization, to one-half of an acre of land on which the church was located. The dispute came about under the following circumstances. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Crowson made a deed on April 24, 1942 to the trustees of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Washington Community to land described as:

“2 acres approximately in the center of the SE|4 of Section 29, Twp. 11, Range 2 East, and more particularly defined as being the land used by the Hill School as its grounds for the…