CATHOLIC BISHOP OF CHICAGO v. CASTLE

Gen. No. 11,011.

14 Ill. App.2d 495 (1957)

144 N.E.2d 874

The Catholic Bishop of Chicago, a Corporation sole, and Rev. Martin D. McNamara, Catholic Bishop of Joliet in Illinois, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Latham Castle, Attorney General for the State of Illinois, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Loretta Shields Murr, et al., Counterclaimants, v. The Catholic Bishop of Chicago, a Corporation sole, et al., Defendants re Counterclaim.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

Rehearing denied October 1, 1957.

Released for publication October 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Lagger, and George N. Blatt, Jr., and Wise & Wise, all of Joliet, for appellants.

Francis A. Dunn, of Joliet, for appellees.


JUSTICE CROW delivered the opinion of the court.

This appeal is in this court by transfer from the Supreme Court. It is the second appeal by defendants-appellants in the same case. The decree now attacked authorizes the sale of part of a parcel of land conveyed in 1849, in trust for charitable purposes, the deed prohibiting sale, or use of the premises for other than the specified purposes.

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