Holden v. Board of Commissioners

Citations

• 87 Ill. 275

Syllabus

<p>Devise—for insane asylum, who will take bequest. When, at the time of making a devise of real estate to any insane asylum which should be organized, located and established in the future by virtue of some State or municipal authority, or some charter which might give the institution permanence, counties had no authority whatever to establish such insane asylum, it was held, that a county having a branch of its poor-house set apart, for keeping its insane paupers, and which, subsequently to the will, erected an additional building upon the poor-farm, was not entitled to the devise, it not being such an institution as was contemplated by the bequest, and that the Northern Insane Asylum was entitled to the same.</p>