Legal Opinion
United States v. Laurence Seward
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 15, 2001No. 00-1241PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Until his death at age 83, Wendell O’Neal was a boarder in Laurence Seward’s house, and, so he may have thought, a friend of Seward. After O’Neal died, however, Seward proved himself to be far less than a faithful companion. Instead, Seward embarked on a scheme to appropriate O’Neal’s assets. He began by forging a number of bank signature cards and using the cards to transfer funds from O’Neal’s accounts into his own accounts. The executor of O’Neal’s estate caught on to what was happening rather soon, but that did not stop Seward. He promptly forged a will in…
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