Nance v. Busby
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM DAVIDSON. Appeal from Chancery Court of Davidson County. Andrew Allison, Ch.
1Opinion of the CourtBurton, J.
The case arising upon the record may be briefly summarized, as a conflict over the possession of church-property between two opposing parties in a congregation of the regular Primitive Baptist Church.
The property in question was conveyed, in 1858, by deed of Thomas Parrel, to an unincorporated religious society, described in the deed as “ The Regular Primitive Baptist Church, at Nashville, of the old school, and of which Elder Philip Ball is the present, pastor or minister, and their successors of same faith and order forever.”
Upon this' lot, by the contributions of the con*306gregation, a…
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