Rice v. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

Daniel F. Rice, Jr. (Rice), filed a document, entitled a “Claim,” in the probate proceedings pending in the estate of Ada Rice, deceased, in Du Page County. (For other aspects of litigation in the Rice estates see In re Estates of Rice (1979), 77 Ill. App. 3d 641.) In the body of the document Rice sought an amount sufficient to satisfy any judgment which might be recovered under a complaint filed simultaneously in the Federal District Court “for damages for wrongfully and unduly influencing Daniel F. Rice to virtually…