Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. McGlew

This case comes by appeal from the Appellate"Court for the First District, and is reported in 90 Ill. App. 58. That court, in its opinion by Mr. Justice Shepard, made the following statement of the case, which we adopt:

“This is the case of a claim originally filed in the probate court against the estate of John T. Chumasero, deceased. The controversy is purely one of classification or preference under the statute relating to the adminis-' tration of estates. Section 70 of that act, as in force at the time of the death of Mr. Chumasero, and since July 1, 1889, to the present time, includes…