Long v. Hess
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by William Long and Catherine Gleim, against George Hess, Henry Hess, Louis Hess and Mary Kopf, the children, Christina Hess, the widow, and Louis Hess, the executor, of Jacob Hess, deceased, to set aside the will of Jacob Hess, and to declare a trust in favor of the complainants in two-sixths of the estate of the testator.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by William Long and Catherine Gleim, against George Hess, Henry Hess, Louis Hess and Mary Kopf, the children, Christina Hess, the widow, and Louis Hess, the executor, of Jacob Hess, deceased, to set aside the will of Jacob Hess, and to declare a trust in favor of the complainants in two-sixths of the estate of the testator. Jacob Hess died March 29, 1891, in LaSalle county, where he had lived for many years, leaving an estate consisting almost exclusively of…
1Opinion of the Court
Bailey, J.:
The defendants, in whose favor the decree was rendered, now urge, with a considerable degree of earnestness, that the court below erred in refusing to suppress the deposition taken in Germany, on the ground that the manner in which it was taken was a clear departure from that prescribed by the statute for taking the depositions of foreign witnesses. All we need say upon that point is, that the question thus raised is not before us for decision. The court below refused to suppress the deposition and considered it as evidence on the final hearing, but upon all the evidence as thus…
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