First Mission Covenant Church v. Rockford Broadcasters, Inc.

Mr. Presiding Justice Dove

delivered the opinion of the court.

This cause is here on an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Winnebago county, dismissing for want of equity appellant’s complaint seeking specific performance of a contract for broadcasting, without cost to appellant, its church services each Sunday from 10:45 to 12:15 p. m., and its Julotta services each Christmas morning from 5:00 a. m. to 7:00 a. m.

The controversy grows out of the following facts: In the year 1923, the Reverend A. T. Frykman, pastor of appellant church at Rockford, owned and operated a radio…