In Re Estate of Pinckard

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE LINN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Appellants, Jewel LaFontant, Herbert Fisher, and Earle Malkin, prosecuted two appeals, consolidated here, from two orders entered in the probate division of the circuit court of Cook County. One order found appellants in contempt of court and committed them to jail until they paid over to the administrator of the estate of Charles Pinckard the sum of $20,400. The other order was entered at the conclusion of a citation proceeding brought pursuant to section 16 — 1 of the Probate Act of 1975 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 110M, par. 16 —…