Weir v. Mowe

This is an appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District. The questions involved grow out of an assignment proceeding in the county court of St. Clair county, in which appellant, M. W. Weir, was appointed assignee of the insolvent estate of Henry Seiter. As in the case between the same parties involving a claim in favor of Lucetta Nichols, the contention of appellant is that the county and Appellate Courts erred in holding that a claim in favor of Lucius D. Turner, conservator for James H. Biggin, was not entitled to preference as a claim for trust funds over the general creditors…