Hamsher v. Hamsher

Citations

• 132 Ill. 273
• 8 L.R.A. 556

Syllabus

<p>1. Corporations—mode o/ organising—of a corporation not for pecuniary profit. A corporation not for pecuniary profit may be organized as follows: Three or more persons must associate themselves together for some lawful purpose, make a certificate stating the name ■of the association, its business, the objects of its formation, the number and names of its trustees, managers or directors, etc., and file such certificate with the Secretary of State, who thereupon issues a certificate of organization.</p> <p>2. Same—as to religious society—mode of incorporation. To incorporate a religious society, the church, congregation or society holds a meeting and elects or appoints three or more of its members “as trustees, wardens and vestrymen,” etc., and adopts a corporate name ; and when ■the chairman or secretary of the meeting has made, and filed in the recorder's office of the county, an affidavit as to the holding of such meeting, and its action, as aforesaid, the body politic and corporate is -created. '</p> <p>3. Same—quantity of land tobe held—limitation to ten acres—societies for religious worship—as distinguished from benevolent or missionary ■societies. Section 42 of the act concerning corporations, approved April 18, 1872, which limits their power to take land by gift, devise or purchase, to ten acres, applies only to those churches, congregations or societies which are organized for the purpose of religious worship, and not to organizations commonly called benevolent or missionary societies.</p> <p>4. The written certificate of the objects of a corporation, filed in the office of the Secretary of State, stated that the name of the corporation was “The Young Men’s Christian Association of Decatur, Illinois; that its object was to promote growth in grace and Christian fellowship-among its members, and aggressive Christian work, especially by and for young men, and to seek out and aid the worthy poor, and that the management of the association should be vested in a