Osnes v. Morris

NEELY, Justice:

This case concerns the same church controversy that was before the Court in Board of Church Extension v. Eads, 159 W.Va. 943, 230 S.E.2d 911 (1976). In that earlier case the Board of Church Extension and Home Missions of the Church of God, Anderson, Indiana, brought an action to obtain title to church property in Gilboa, Nicholas County, under a reverter clause in a deed.1 This Court found that *268the conditions triggering the reverter clause had not been met and that the plaintiff, an incorporated church, lacked the capacity to sue in West Virginia.

In the original case the…