People ex rel. Russel v. Illinois State Bank of Crete

The sole question presented for decision is whether, in an action brought to dissolve a bank and to collect and distribute its assets, an order which directs distribution of a substantial portion of those assets to the receiver or his solicitors and thereby diminishes the assets distributable to the creditors of the bank is final and appealable. The Appellate Court held the negative and dismissed the appeal prosecuted by plaintiff in error, a stockholder and creditor of the defunct bank, from an order of the circuit court of Will county allowing $25,000 to the solicitors for the receiver for…