Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. City of Waukegan

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county construing the last will and testament of Charles Dowst, deceased. Dowst, a resident of Evanston, Cook county, died testate on May 22, 1919, leaving him surviving as his only heirs-at-law appellants, Jane A. Green, a sister, and Helen C. D. Foster and Theodore S. Dowst, children of Samuel Dowst, a brother, who had previously died. Decedent’s last will and testament was duly probated in the probate court of Cook county, and appellee, the Chicago Title and Trust Company, was duly appointed executor and trustee thereunder.…