Dempster v. Lansingh
Illinois Supreme Court
Appear from the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
David S. Dempster, the testator of appellants, on the seventh day of April, 1902, filed his bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county against Killian V. R. Lansingh, Clancey J. Dempster, Robert F. Pettibone and others to determine the ownership of 455 shares of the capital stock of the Rosehill Cemetery Company, and for an accounting. The bill was amended, and the trial court sustained a demurrer to the amended bill so far as it sought relief with reference to said shares of stock, and the appellants not desiring to proceed further until the ruling of the trial court upon the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Sarah v. ReadIllinois Supreme Court · 1882
- Harmon v. Auditor of Public AccountsIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
- Corcoran v. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Higgins v. LansinghIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
- Allen v. WoodruffIllinois Supreme Court · 1880
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Jones v. KoepkeIllinois Supreme Court · 1944
- Pillsbury v. EarlyIllinois Supreme Court · 1927
- Lansingh v. DempsterIllinois Supreme Court · 1912
- Smith v. Estate of WomackAppellate Court of Illinois · 1994
- Isabet v. ScottAppellate Court of Illinois · 1936