Lowe v. First Presbyterian Church

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE DIERINGER

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendants appeal from a judgment entered in the Circuit Court of Cook County on July 28, 1971, granting the plaintiffs judgment on the pleadings and ordering the transfer of legal title to the real estate and personal property of the defendant church corporation to the plaintiffs.

On February 18, 1969, the plaintiffs, as representatives of the Presbytery of Chicago of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Cook County against the First Presbyterian Church of…