Dubs v. Egli
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lake county; the Hon. Clark W. Upton, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed by the appellees, Albert Egli, a minister of the Evangelical Association of North America, and William Goessele, a presiding elder of that denomination, and certain other persons, who are lay members thereof, suing on their own behalf, and on behalf of all the members of said association, and on behalf of the members of a certain society or congregation of said…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lake county; the Hon. Clark W. Upton, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed by the appellees, Albert Egli, a minister of the Evangelical Association of North America, and William Goessele, a presiding elder of that denomination, and certain other persons, who are lay members thereof, suing on their own behalf, and on behalf of all the members of said association, and on behalf of the members of a certain society or congregation of said association, known as the Bethany Church, at Highland Park, in Lake county, Illinois, against the appellants, C. Newton Dubs,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
The present controversy is in relation to the ownership of certain church property, consisting of the church building and the lot on which such building stands, situated in the town of Highland Park, in Lake county. The name of the church is, “The Bethany Church and Society of Highland Park.” The complainants and the defendants formerly constituted one society or congregation; but in the spring or summer of 1890, a disagreement arose in the church, and thereupon the complainants, who are in the minority, withdrew from the church peaceably, and thereafter held services under the direction of a…
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