Spire v. Lovell
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Charles Kellum, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, J.
Clarissa H. Spire, plaintiff in error, filed in the County Court of Kane county exceptions to two of the items contained in the report of the executors of her deceased husband, and those exceptions were there sustained; but upon the appeal to the circuit court the judgment was otherwise as to both of said items, and the report was approved.
The action of the circuit court in allowing the charge of §210, for money expended by the executors in the erection of a tombstone at the grave of the deceased, was right. The tombstone was reasonably worth the price paid therefor, and the estate of the…
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