Court Opinion

ID: 9559720
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:34:20.261057+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:11:34.541921
License: Public Domain

KEETON, Justice
(dissenting).
According to the opinion in this case, the Lloyd Crystal Post No. 20 is given a fee simple title to a public memorial.
While the Post- might have a trust title as against the city, under the proof made, it *164did not and does not have an absolute title to the property.
I do not agree with the reasons given for the conclusion reached. If the title to the property in question ever belonged to the city, it could not be conveyed in the manner done, and the question of equitable estoppel does not enter into the case, and is not a sufficient reason to deprive the city of title.
Public monies raised by taxation cannot, in my opinion, be spent to further a private enterprise. The Post might be a trustee for all the people and municipal bodies that contributed to the memorial, but it does not follow that the Post is the absolute owner of the property in question.
For these, and other reasons, I dissent.