People ex rel. Courtney v. Wilson

Mr. Presiding Justice Friend

delivered the opinion of the court.

The state’s attorney of Cook county brought proceedings in chancery to enforce a charitable trust created under the last will and testament of Kate Sturges Buckingham, late of Chicago, which provided a fund of $1,000,000 for the erection in Chicago of a suitable memorial to Alexander Hamilton, naming as defendants the Art Institute of Chicago, John P. Wilson, Walter B. Smith, A. A. Sprague, Earl Kribben and Chauncey McCormick, as trustees of the fund under her will, and Eliel Saarinen, an architect of Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield…