Kirk v. Urist

This is a direct appeal from an order of the probate court of Cook County approving a report of the sale of real property in the matter of the estate of Mary Devereux, who had been adjudged an incompetent some months earlier. As grounds for our jurisdiction to entertain the direct appeal it is asserted that a freehold is involved, and that “the rights of Mary Devereux under the due process clauses of the State and Federal Constitutions are involved.” However, with the advent of the recent amendments to the judicial article of our constitution, (Const, of Ill. art. VI,) and the complementary…