Dendy v. Greater Damascus Baptist Church

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In 1965 the appellees, the Greater Damascus Baptist Church and its trustees, built a small church which proved to have been placed by mistake upon an acre of unfenced woodland owned by the appellant Dendy instead of upon an adjoining three-acre tract which the appellees had bought as a site for the church building. Dendy, by means of a survey, learned with certainty that the mistake had been made and demanded that the building be removed from his land. The church refused to comply with his demand. Dendy then brought this action in ejectment to recover possession of…