Atkins v. Gillespie

By deed executed May 8, 1834, James King conveyed a certain lot of real estate in Knox Connty to trustees named therein, the predecessors in trust of the complainants, C. B. Atkin et al. The habendum clause of this deed is as follows:

“To have and to hold the above described lot or parcel of land, situate, lying and being as aforesaid, to he held by them, the aforesaid Trustees and their successors in office, forever in trust, that they shall erect and build thereon a house of worship for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America according to the rules and…