Board of Church Extension v. Eads

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, asserting that the conditions triggering the reverter have not yet been met, or alternatively, that by virtue of W. Va. Const., Art. VI, §47 and W. Va. Code, 31-1-79 [1965], both providing that no church…