Zorn v. Zorn

PRESIDING JUSTICE WEBBER

delivered the opinion of the court:

The petitioners appeal from an order of the circuit court of Livingston County which granted the executor’s motion to strike the petitioner’s motion to dismiss issuance of letters testamentary. The petitioners argue on appeal that the circuit court lacked jurisdiction to issue the letters and, in the alternative, that the executor is attempting to perpetrate a subterfuge upon the court. We affirm.

The decedent, prior to his death, had been the owner of farm property in Livingston County, Illinois. On August 12, 1980, a purported deed…