Ables v. Garner

Grifein Smith, Chief Justice.

The controversy involves church property at Cullendale estimated to be worth from $10,000 to $13,000. Included is the Baptist church building erected on land purchased in 1944. At that time members of the Landmark [or Missionary] Baptist Church organized the Immanuel [Missionary] Baptist Church with Clyde Leslie as pastor. Two lots desirable as a building site were bought for $400. Due to the fact that the projected church was without ordained deacons title to the lots was taken in Leslie’s name, but admittedly the church membership, or the inchoate organization,…