Brunnenmeyer v. Buhre
Illinois Supreme Court
■ Witrr of Ebror to the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Aurora, in Kane county; the Hon. Benjamin F. Parks, Judge, presiding.
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■ Witrr of Ebror to the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Aurora, in Kane county; the Hon. Benjamin F. Parks, Judge, presiding. The complainants, Ernst H. Buhre, Michael Habermeyer, Stephen Funk, John Brugge and Carl Hubner, for themselves, and also on behalf of the members of the German Evangelical Lutheran Saint Paul’s Church, of Aurora, Illinois, except the members thereof made defendants, exhibited their bill in chancery in the court below, against John A. Brunnenmeyer, Frederick Fickensher, William Fickensher, Christian Bauman and Henry Brunnenmeyer, for an injunction. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
The statute declares that the title of real estate, held by trustees for the use of an incorporated religious society, shall vest in them by the assumed corporate name. They become seized for the use of the body. And each member of the church becomes entitled to a beneficial interest in the property of the church, so long as his or her connection or membership continues. The trustees chosen by the organization, are, for convenience, vested with the legal title for its control and management, in its enjoyment by the body. They have no power to pervert it, or prevent it from being used for the…
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