Hospital & Benevolent Ass'n v. Arkansas Baptist State Convention

Appellant .brought this suit in ejectment against the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, hereinafter referred to as the convention, to recover possession of a hospital and the adjacent grounds located in the city of Pine Bluff. The defendant convention filed an answer, alleging its possession and ownership of the property under a deed from the plaintiff, which was alleged to have been lost, and, by way of cross-complaint, the defendant prayed that its lost deed be restored and held valid, and that its title be quieted against the plaintiffs. In an answer to the cross-complaint the plaintiffs…