Maher v. Aldrich
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity filed by Elizabeth Stevens and Ella L. Aldrich, against Lillie B. Maher and others, to enforce an alleged trust in favor of the complainants in the income from certain real estate situated in the city of Chicago, herein referred to as the “Lake avenue property;” in the proceeds of the sale of certain other real estate located in the city of Chicago, herein…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. R. S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity filed by Elizabeth Stevens and Ella L. Aldrich, against Lillie B. Maher and others, to enforce an alleged trust in favor of the complainants in the income from certain real estate situated in the city of Chicago, herein referred to as the “Lake avenue property;” in the proceeds of the sale of certain other real estate located in the city of Chicago, herein referred to as the “Oahwood boulevard property;” and in the income from certain real estate located in the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hand
The evidence found in this record is voluminous and upon vital questions conflicting. It, however, appears from the testimony of all the witnesses who testified upon the subject, that the relationship of the parties as stated in the bill was correct, and that Elizabeth Stevens brought up Lillie B. Maher from her infancy and that she regarded Mrs. Stevens in the light of a mother, though she was never legally adopted; that in the summer of 1883 Elizabeth Stevens, Ella L. Aldrich, Sybil Aldrich and Lillie B. Maher were at the farm of Benjamin Sumner, near Woodstock, Connecticut, where Mrs.…
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