Smyth v. Nelson

Mrs. Margaret Smyth, filed a complaint against C. K. Nelson as trustee for the congregation of St. Luke’s Church, and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Atlanta, a corporation, which was the successor in Fulton county, “as regards the subject-matter of this litigation, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Georgia.” Along with other allegations, the petitioner made substantially the following: On April 25, 1904, she owned a certain piece of property in Atlanta, Georgia, hereinafter referred to as the residence lot, and on that date executed a writing of which the…