Legal Opinion

Trustees of Grays Lake & Warren Methodist Episcopal Church v. Metcalf

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 21, 1910PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lake county; the Hon. Arthur H. Frost, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter

This is a bill for injunction filed in the circuit court of Lake county by defendants in error against plaintiffs in error, alleging that defendants in error were elected trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Grays Lake and Warren on May 25, 1908; that in 1879 the trastees of the Warren Methodist Episcopal Church obtained title, by deed from Levi Stafford, to certain land, upon which they erected a church building, dedicating it to the general conference of the Methodist church for divine worship; that because said church building had become dilapidated, the former members having died…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. White v. MorrisonIllinois Supreme Court · 1849
  2. Ohman v. OhmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1908

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Chandler v. FisherIllinois Supreme Court · 1918
  2. Mallory v. MalloryAppellate Court of Illinois · 1911
  3. VanMeter v. MalchefIllinois Supreme Court · 1916
  4. Hilenski v. BemanIllinois Supreme Court · 1920
  5. Meinel v. RandolphAppellate Court of Illinois · 1913

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