County of Cook v. Richert

This cause pertains to a claim made by Cook County and filed in the probate court of the County of Cook against the estate of Edward J. Kaindl, deceased. The probate court allowed the claim for the sum of $18,738.45, whereupon a statutory appeal was prosecuted to the superior court of Cook County and there it was disallowed.

The case was heard by the court, without a jury, and upon a written stipulation of facts which showed the following: That Edward J. Kaindl served as recorder of deeds of Cook County from December, 1935, to September 8, 1948; that as county recorder of Cook County, or by a…