Marshall v. Dean

The question to be decided in this, case is whether the trial court erred in sustaining the appellees’ motion for a summary judgment and entering final judgment in their favor.

By deed dated November 12, 1941, T. J. Marshall, plaintiff below and appellant now, conveyed a parcel of land to named trustees of the Grottoes Free Pentecostal Church, or their successors, for the sole and exclusive use and benefit of said church, which, for the purposes of the deed, was defined “as a religious congregation who shall be governed by a board of three deacons or deaconesses, who shall have had the…