Trustees of the Casa View Assembly of God Church v. Williams

O’QUINN, Justice.

This case, an action to recover a one-acre tract of land conveyed in 1960 by a Dallas church to its pastor, was decided in district court on motions for summary judgment.

Trustees of the Casa View Assembly of God Church brought this suit in 1964 to recover land from Rev. Fred A. Williams, appellee, who had resigned as pastor of the church in 1962 and moved to the State of Florida.

The church trustees, appellants in this cause, alleged that the acre of land was conveyed to appellee “in trust * * * upon which to build a parsonage for the church,” with the right in the church “to…