People ex rel. Carson v. Muldoon

Frank Carson, county treasurer, applied to the county court of Winnebago county for judgment, with order of sale of a tract of land containing 11.64 acres on the west bank of Rock river, adjoining the city of Rockford on the south, delinquent for general taxes of 1921. The appellant, Peter J. Muldoon, Catholic Bishop of Rockford, filed his objection on the ground that the property was exempt, alleging that it was purchased by him for the purpose of providing a monastery for an order known in the Catholic church as the Poor Clares; that prior to April 1, 1921, the order of Poor Clares occupied…