Standard Trust & Savings Bank v. Fernow

This is an appeal from a decree of the superior court of Cook county dismissing for want of equity a bill filed in that court January 18, 1924, by appellant, and granting the relief prayed in the cross-bill of appellee.

The bill filed alleged, in substance, that appellant was the duly qualified executor of and trustee under the will of John A. W. Fernow, Sr., who died September 2, 1922, leaving him surviving as his only heirs, John A. W. Fer-now, Jr., his son, who is appellee here, and a daughter, Marie F. Leith; that under the terms of the will appellant was to preserve the trust estate,…