Klingman v. Levinson

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE McGLOON

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from orders of the Circuit Court ordering defendant, an attorney and trustee of certain stocks and bonds, to present an accounting of the trust assets to the court and to turn the trust res over to a corporate escrowee pending litigation, and an .order finding defendant in contempt of court for refusing to carry out these instructions. On appeal the defendant argues that the court improperly terminated the trust without hearing evidence, that there was no proof that an accounting was owed the settlor of the…