Bartley v. Pleasure Driveway & Park District

Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellants, Mary L. Bartley and Chester F. Barnett, filed a hill in equity against the Pleasure Driveway and Park District of Peoria, a municipal corporation organized under the act of June 19, 1893, entitled “An Act to provide for the creation of Pleasure Driveway and Park-Districts” which corporation is hereinafter called the District. The bill alleg'ed that on February 23, 1895, Lydia Bradley conveyed certain real estate, owned by her, to the District for a free public park, upon condition that the District should keep said…