Austin v. Parker

Appellee recovered a money decree against appellants, Harrison Parker, Seymour Stedman and George H. Wilkins, as trustees of the Co-Operatnre Society of America, (a common law trust,) for services rendered in procuring a controlling interest in an insurance company and a certain building in the city of Chicago. An appeal was taken from this decree to the Appellate Court for the First District, where it was affirmed, and that court issued a certificate of importance and allowed an appeal to this court.

The Co-Operative Society of America was created by a declaration of trust executed on or…