Peek v. Woman's Home Missionary Society

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Ogle county finding the title to certain land in said county to be in the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in fee simple and denying the petition at law of certain appellants for partition of the land.

The cause arises out of the provisions of the will of Martha E. Peek, whereby she gave a farm of about 150 acres to the missionary society for the establishment and maintenance of an orphans’ home. The provisions of the will in that regard are set forth at length in the court’s statement in a prior…