Strauss v. Phillips
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Farlin Q. Ball, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Farlin Q. Ball, Judge, presiding. The following is the statement of facts in this case made by the Appellate Court: “The amended bill alleges that complainants are creditors of John Fitzgerald, deceased, to the extent of about $70,000.00; that the said Fitzgerald died in Lincoln, Nebraska, on the 30th day of December, 1894, intestate, and that letters of administration were granted to Mary Fitzgerald, his widow, defendant herein, as administratrix, in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
This is a bill, filed by the appellants, who are nonresident creditors of the estate of one John Fitzgerald, deceased, for the purpose of setting aside-as fraudulent the claim of Mary Fitzgerald, administratrix de bonis non with the will annexed of the estate of Edward P. Cagney, deceased, which claim had been allowed by the probate court of Cook county against the estate of John Fitzgerald for the sum of $24,156.10 as of class 6, and for the further purpose of removing the administration of the estate of John Fitzgerald, deceased, from the probate court of Cook county to the superior court…
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