Dorman v. Tost
Illinois Supreme Court
Lane, as administrator de bonis non of Christopher Robinson, deceased, filed his petition in the Gallatin Circuit Court, stating that in November, 1819, letters of administration upon the estate of Robinson, were granted to Mary Robinson, his widow, and John Brown, who proceeded to administer; but in consequence of a failure to collect debts due to the estate, they were unable to pay the debts due from the estate, and particularly a debt due the Bank of Illinois, which the…
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Lane, as administrator de bonis non of Christopher Robinson, deceased, filed his petition in the Gallatin Circuit Court, stating that in November, 1819, letters of administration upon the estate of Robinson, were granted to Mary Robinson, his widow, and John Brown, who proceeded to administer; but in consequence of a failure to collect debts due to the estate, they were unable to pay the debts due from the estate, and particularly a debt due the Bank of Illinois, which the bank consented to have renewed by the administrator. That in August, 1821, Lane intermarried with the widow of Robinson,…
1Opinion of the CourtTreat, C. J.
The material facts set forth in this petition are these. Robinson died intestate in 1819, leaving considerable real and personal estate. In November, 1826, his administrators made a settlement with the Probate Court, which, after charging them with the assets, showed a balance against the estate of $1,008.87, consisting chiefly of a debt due to the Bank of Illinois. In January, 1827, the legislature passed a special act, authorizing John Lane to sell enough of the real estate to discharge this balance. During the same month, Lane sold several tracts of the land, for the sum of $1,057, and…
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