Wilson v. Whitten
Appellate Court of Illinois
Claim in Probate. — Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery County; the Hon. Samuel L. Dwight, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the November term, 1900.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wright
Appellant filed his claim in the Probate Court for $100 against the estate of W. T. Pritchett, deceased, and the case having been appealed to the Circuit Court a trial by jury ended by the court directing a verdict against appellant, to reverse which he brings this appeal, and for error to reverse the judgment, argues such action of the court in so directing a verdict, and also in the rejection of evidence tendered by him.
Lewis Trexler and the deceased had been partners in business as Pritchett & Trexler, and after Pritchett died the assets of the firm fell to Trexler for the purpose of…
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