Niemann v. Vaughn Community Church

Vaughn Community Church (VCC) has an existing church building and would like to sell it to construct a larger, more modern church nearby; but the trust controlling the property appears to prohibit the sale. When Joyce Niemann sought to enforce the trust language, *828VCC sought equitable remedies to enable the sale. Niemann appeals the trial court’s ruling that the language in the deed that VCC is to “HOLD said property for the perpetual use of the Protestant Evangelical Churches of the Community of Vaughn, Washington” is an unreasonable and discriminatory restraint on alienation and void under…