First Rebecca Baptist Church, Inc. v. Atlantic Cotton Mills & Rivoli Crossing Baptist Church, Inc.

Hunt, Presiding Justice.

This appeal involves a three-way dispute over ownership of certain property, and raises issues concerning the applicability of a reverter clause in a deed to a charitable group. Atlantic Cotton Mills brought this action seeking a declaration that because of the reverter clause, it is the owner of title to property which it had given to the Rebecca Baptist Church. Atlantic named, as defendants, First Rebecca Baptist Church, Inc. and Rivoli Crossing Baptist Church, Inc., two congregations that made competing claims to the property. The trial court found in favor of…