McDonough County Orphanage v. Burnhart

This is a direct appeal by three intervening petitioners from a decree of the circuit court of McDonough County in a proceeding filed by the McDonough County Orphanage, a corporation, hereinafter called the Orphanage, to dissolve and distribute its assets pursuant to sections 54 and 55 of the “Act to revise the law relating to Corporations not for pecuniary profit” approved July 17, 1943. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953, chap. 32, par. 163a53, 163a54.) A part of the assets in controversy is real estate, thus a freehold is involved.

The complaint alleges that the Orphanage was organized in 1912 as a…