Price v. Merryman

Dissenting Opinion

White, J.

It is conceded that the plaintiff-appellees “made out a prima facie case with reference to the legal title to this property.”1 That title was, in fact, conceded before the trial began.2 It is also conceded “that the Appellees are, in fact, the rightful legal successors in interest to the grantees of the deed executed in 1891.”3

The appellees are, by their own description in the captions of their own complaint, pleadings, and briefs “The Trustees of the Evangelical United Brethren Church of Mt. Lebanon.” The 1891 grantees were “Trustees of Mt. Lebanon U. B. Church of…