Church of God of Prophecy v. Ferris

From the parties’ stipulation that trustees Clark, Newman and Inman were and continued to be the duly appointed trustees of the local church, with sufficient authority, indeed, to convey to plaintiff the property on which the church edifice stood, it follows, first, that Tomlinson, Grover and Tichenor were not trustees (and this, in fact, is not contradicted) and, second, that their purported deed to defendants of the parsonage property was without authority and of no effect. Assuming arguendo that bare legal title resided in the Clark group of trustees, rather than in the entirely different…