Clapp v. Emery
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the H011. John A. Jaaieson, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the H011. John A. Jaaieson, Judge, presiding. Clarissa Emery exhibited her bill, on the equity side of the Superior Court of Cook county, against Ozro W. Clapp and Julia I. Emery, administrators of the estate of David W. Emery, deceased, alleging therein, among other things, that she is the widow and sole devisee of William S. Emery, deceased, late of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who died about November 16, 1871; that said William S. Emery left property, credits and assets,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholeield
Appellants contend that no ground of equitable jurisdiction is established, and that the bill should, therefore, have been dismissed.
The evidence, in our opinion, sufficiently shows a trust. It shows that David W. Emery was authorized to collect and invest appellee’s money for her; that he kept the money together, and invested it, from time to time, and spoke of it and treated it as being not his, but his mother’s money. He was, we think, but her trustee in investing it—not a borrower of it.
It was said in School Trustees, etc. v. Kirwin, Exr. et al. 25 Ill. 73: “It is not necessary, if the…
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