Vanatta v. Carr
Illinois Supreme Court
Appear from the Circuit Court of Jasper county; .the Hon. Truman E. Ames, Judge, presiding. This case has been to this court before as Vanatta v. Carr, 223 Ill. 160. In the original case the trial court sustained a demurrer to the bill now before us and dismissed the suit for want of equity. On appeal to this court the decree of the lower court was reversed and the cause remanded.
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Appear from the Circuit Court of Jasper county; .the Hon. Truman E. Ames, Judge, presiding. This case has been to this court before as Vanatta v. Carr, 223 Ill. 160. In the original case the trial court sustained a demurrer to the bill now before us and dismissed the suit for want of equity. On appeal to this court the decree of the lower court was reversed and the cause remanded. A copy of the will construed by the court in that case and all the facts as set out in the bill are found in the statemént in the original case and need not be here repeated. The remanding order in that case was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
It is somewhat difficult to ascertain definitely from the record the sum expended by appellee Sarah Carr under the provisions of the will for her son Alva B. Cowger, which the chancellor placed at $1007.50; but that is not important in view of our conclusions reached in this case. We assume from the findings of the decree and the briefs of counsel that the trial court did not take this amount into consideration in deciding what should be allowed to the remainder-men under the will. Manifestly, the chancellor found that appellee Sarah Carr should be compelled to account for the $2220 that she…
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