Bagley v. Carter

Nichols, Chief Justice.

This litigation involves the control of the property owned by the Benjamin James Church, a Primitive Baptist Church located in Pierce County, Georgia. The church has been in existence since 1884 as an unincorporated religious association. The deeds to the property involved in this dispute were executed to named trustees and their successors with reverter clauses in the event the property should cease to be used for church *625purposes. The complaint was brought by named members of the Ben James Church. It was alleged that "such members own and control the church property…