Cowdery v. Northern Trust Co.

This is a consolidation of two appeals taken to the Supreme Court and by it transferred to this court. (383 Ill. 75.)

The plaintiff, Corene Cowdery, appealed from a decree which dismissed her complaint for the construetion of two trusts — an insurance and a testamentary trust created by her father, Edward Gf. Gowdery- — but granted part of the relief sought by her. She later appealed from a supplemental decree, entered after the first appeal had been perfected, fixing* solicitors’ fees and expenses of certain defendants and charging same against the principal or "income of the trust funds…