Strauss v. Strauss

Plaintiff appellants herein have appealed from an order of the circuit court of Pike county, Illinois, allowing solicitors’ fees in the sum of $1,000 to counsel for defendant appellee Albert Strauss, for services performed in the Supreme Court in a chancery suit filed by the plaintiffs to construe certain provisions of the last will and testament and codicils thereto of one Isaac Strauss, deceased.

It appears that Strauss was a merchant and real estate dealer who had died testate in said county, leaving a last will and testament, with three codicils, providing numerous legacies and trust funds…