People ex rel. Hoffman v. Judge of the Circuit Court

The relator brought ejectment against Daniel B. Harrington, Edmund B. Harrington, Patrick Digman and Frank B. Bice, and whilst the cause was pending, but before issue, the defendant Daniel B. Harrington died.

Thereupon the relator informed the court by affidavits of such death and that no administration on decedent’s estate had been or was being entered upon, and further, that decedent’s title was derived from sales for taxes, and since his death all his heirs except Charles E. and Edmund B. Harrington had by deed made these two heirs trustees of the estate with full power to close up and…