Hecht v. Powell

At the April term, 1921, the plaintiff, Joseph Powell, filed a claim in the probate court of Cook county, in the estate of Frank A. Hecht, deceased, for $55,200, the alleged difference between the purchase price of 2,300 barrels of whisky on June 29, 1917, and the market price of the whisky on September 15,1917. On March 21,1924, after a hearing, at which evidence was presented, the probate court allowed the claim in the sum of $48,300. From that order there was an appeal by the executors of the estate of Frank A. Hecht, deceased, to the circuit court of Cook county. There was a trial de novo…