Billings v. Warren
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Murray E. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Charles P. Williams, residing at Stonington, Conn., died testate October 28, 1879. By his will, after making certain specific bequests, he directed, in section 8, that all the rest and residue of his estate should be held and managed by his executor, W. J. H. Pollard, for a period of two years after his death, at the end of which time the executor should make and file with the…
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Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Murray E. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Charles P. Williams, residing at Stonington, Conn., died testate October 28, 1879. By his will, after making certain specific bequests, he directed, in section 8, that all the rest and residue of his estate should be held and managed by his executor, W. J. H. Pollard, for a period of two years after his death, at the end of which time the executor should make and file with the court of probate in Stonington an inventory of said residue as' it should then be, with the executor’s valuations of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
In disposing of the first and third of the foregoing grounds of reversal, in an opinion by Justice Scott heretofore adopted, we said:
“First—Among the assets of - the estate received from the executor of Charles P. Williams, deceased, by Codding-ton Billings, as trustee, on February 3, 1882, were 630 shares ' of the capital stock of the Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company. On November 7,1882, that company, by resolution of its board of directors, increased its capital stock forty-two per cent and distributed the new stock ratably among the holders of the old stock, and on that day Billings, as…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- DeKoven v. DeKovenIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- Haines v. HayIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
3Cited by19 opinions
- Tucker v. BrownWashington Supreme Court · 1944
- Fell v. McCreadyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1932
- Bennett v. WeberIllinois Supreme Court · 1926
- In re Heaton's EstateSupreme Court of Vermont · 1915
- Ellis v. KingAppellate Court of Illinois · 1949
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