Marshall v. Northern Trust Co.

This action was filed in the circuit court of Cook County by Harry L. Marshall, Bert Marshall, and William Marshall, certain heirs-at-law of Anna Kushel, deceased, to construe the latter’s will and to determine the rights of the heirs to share in her estate. Harry D. Graham, Marshall Walther, and Jane Parrish, being decedent’s other heirs-at-law, The Northern Trust Company of Chicago, executor and trustee of the Anna Kushel estate, and the purported trust beneficiaries under the will were made parties defendant. The trial court construed the will as creating a valid trust and, a freehold…