Holden v. Board of Commissioners
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. William W. Farwell, Judge, presiding. This was a bill filed by the appellees, “ The Board of Commissioners of Cook County,” to compel Thomas B. Bryan, as trustee under the will of Jonathan Burr, deceased, to convey to appellees a certain bequest, and the appellants, trustees of the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane, located at Elgin in this State, resist the same on behalf of that institution, claiming…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. William W. Farwell, Judge, presiding. This was a bill filed by the appellees, “ The Board of Commissioners of Cook County,” to compel Thomas B. Bryan, as trustee under the will of Jonathan Burr, deceased, to convey to appellees a certain bequest, and the appellants, trustees of the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane, located at Elgin in this State, resist the same on behalf of that institution, claiming that it is entitled to the bequest. The part of the will making the bequest is as follows: “ To Thomas B. Bryan I give,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
The General Assembly of the State, in the revision of 1874, p. 307, see. 25, clause 5, authorized counties to erect and provide for a county insane asylum. Previous to that time, counties possessed no such authority; but they had the power to erect and maintain a county poor-house, and other necessary buildings in connection therewith, and to establish and maintain a farm for the employment of the poor. It was by virtue of the last named power that Cook county erected the building which it denominates an insane asylum, and for which, as such, it lays claims to the bequest in controversy.
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