Legal Opinion

Weir v. Mowe

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 10, 1899Published

Voluntary Assignments.—Petition for a priority. Trial in the County Court of St. Clair County; the Hon. Edward C. Roads, Judge, presiding. Hearing and judgment for defendant; appeal by petitioners.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Worthington

Henry Seiter was appointed trustee of James Biggin, an insane person, by the Circuit Court of St. Clair County, and gave bond in the sum of $25,000, with Madison T. Stookey, Herm G-. Weber, James D. Baker, Lucius D. Turner, Marshall W. Weir and Robert W. Holder, as sureties..On February 7, 1894, he received as such trustee $14,-644.78, which sum he deposited in the bank of Henry Seiter & Co., at Lebanon, a bank owned and managed by himself alone. Under the name of Henry Seiter & Co., he issued to himself a certificate of deposit in his own name, as trustee, for $14,644.78, due one year after…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Mutual Accident Ass'n of the Northwest v. JacobsIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  2. Hanchett v. WaterburyIllinois Supreme Court · 1885
  3. Wetherell v. O'BrienIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  4. Union National Bank v. GoetzIllinois Supreme Court · 1891
  5. Bouton v. DementIllinois Supreme Court · 1887

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