Winslow v. Leland
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Gwynn Garnett, Judge, presiding. This was a bill, in the nature of a creditor’s bill, brought by Lawson A. Winslow against Sherman Leland, administrator of the estate of William H. W. Cushman, deceased, Anna.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Gwynn Garnett, Judge, presiding. This was a bill, in the nature of a creditor’s bill, brought by Lawson A. Winslow against Sherman Leland, administrator of the estate of William H. W. Cushman, deceased, Anna. C. Cushman his widow, William H. Cushman, Susan C. Dickey, Anna 0. Glover and Mabel M. Cushman, his children, Nellie Driver, formerly Nellie Cushman, the widow and administratrix of a deceased son, Ealph Plumb, Francis B. Hinckley, Philip B. Shumway and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
The record in this case is voluminous and complicated, and various questions, both of fact and of law, have been presented and elaborately argued. Without attempting to travel over the entire ground covered by counsel in their briefs, we shall content ourselves with a consideration of those questions only which seem to us to be decisive of the case. We have reached the conclusion that the judgment of the Appellate Court should be affirmed, and such affirmance may, in our opinion, be placed upon either one of several distinct grounds.
The first point made is, that the judgments and decree upon…
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