Legal Opinion

Baker v. Bradsby

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1860PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Philip Penn, administrator de bonis non of William Baker, deceased, on the 17th March, 1847, filed his petition at law in the St. Clair Circuit Court, against Sarah Baker, widow of Wm. Baker, John Baker and others, as heirs-at-law of Wm. Baker and Richard Bradsby and Thornton Peoples. Said petition alleges, that the debts of said estate exceed the amount of the personal estate, in the sum of $4,212.33. That said deceased died seized of the lands therein described.

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Philip Penn, administrator de bonis non of William Baker, deceased, on the 17th March, 1847, filed his petition at law in the St. Clair Circuit Court, against Sarah Baker, widow of Wm. Baker, John Baker and others, as heirs-at-law of Wm. Baker and Richard Bradsby and Thornton Peoples. Said petition alleges, that the debts of said estate exceed the amount of the personal estate, in the sum of $4,212.33. That said deceased died seized of the lands therein described. That one John Bradsby, former administrator de bonis non of said Wm. Baker, deceased, did, on the 18th day of July, 1846, in…

1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.

This petition was filed on the law side of the Circuit Court, by a second administrator de bonis non, setting forth that his predecessor, who was administrator de bonis non of the estate of one Baker, had filed a petition for the sale of the real estate of his intestate, for the payment of debts. That an order for the sale of the estate was made, as asked in the petition ; that the property was accordingly sold, and that two of the defendants named in this petition became the purchasers of the estate for prices set forth in the petition; but that before the securities were taken and the…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Deans v. WilcoxonSupreme Court of Florida · 1889
  2. Goodwynne v. BellerbySupreme Court of Georgia · 1903

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