Happy v. Morton
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. W. M. Woodson, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the court below by Joseph Morton and others, against Walter S. Russell, W. W. Happy, and others, for the purpose of securing to the complainants, and those represented by them, the use and ownership of the church edifice and other property belonging to a religious society organized at Jacksonville, in the year 1832, known as the “ Church of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. W. M. Woodson, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the court below by Joseph Morton and others, against Walter S. Russell, W. W. Happy, and others, for the purpose of securing to the complainants, and those represented by them, the use and ownership of the church edifice and other property belonging to a religious society organized at Jacksonville, in the year 1832, known as the “ Church of Christ.” The complainants, and those whom they represent, comprise but a minority of the original society, and had become…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beckwith
In the year 1832 a religious society was.formed at Jacksonville, called by its members the Church of Christ, and the association has been maintained from that time to the present, during which the number of its members has largely increased, and many of them have departed this life. It was never organized under our statute providing for the incorporation of religious societies. The society elected its own preachers and officers, and was the sole judge of their qualifications, and was not subordinate to any other society or ecclesiastical body, but in every respect an independent association,…
2Cited by27 opinions
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