Alden v. St. Peter's Parish
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge, presiding. Appellants filed their bill in equity in the circuit court of DeKalb county, at the October term, 1888, to set aside two certain deeds and for partition of the real estate purporting to be conveyed by said deeds. A change of venue was taken to the circuit court of Kane county, where a hearing was had and the bill dismissed for want of equity.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Henry B. Willis, Judge, presiding. Appellants filed their bill in equity in the circuit court of DeKalb county, at the October term, 1888, to set aside two certain deeds and for partition of the real estate purporting to be conveyed by said deeds. A change of venue was taken to the circuit court of Kane county, where a hearing was had and the bill dismissed for want of equity. The bill represents that on or about September 10, 1877, James S. Waterman, late of said DeKalb county, was the owner in fee simple of the following described real…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
The trial court found that the defendant society was not a corporation, and did not come within the provisions of the statute prohibiting corporations formed for religious worship from holding more than ten acres of land, and found also that the condition in the first deed conveying the lots in question for church purposes only had not been broken by the renting of such lots and using-the rents for church purposes. After a careful consideration of the evidence, and the law applicable thereto, we are satisfied that the case was correctly decided by the learned chancellor in the circuit court.
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