La Salle National Bank v. MacDonald

A decree of the circuit court of Cook County adjudged that a testamentary trust created by the will of Charles MacDonald had terminated and directed distribution of the corpus of the trust, which includes considerable real estate. The successor trustee under the will and the testator’s son, one of the two beneficiaries of the trust, prosecute this appeal. A freehold is involved. Breen v. Breen, 411 Ill. 206; Sutliff v. Aydelott, 373 Ill. 633; Hazlett v. Moore, 372 Ill. 192; Ashton v. Macqueen, 361 Ill. 132.

Charles MacDonald died on October 31, 1931. He was survived by his daughter, Gertrude,…