Legal Opinion

McCartney v. Ridgway

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 11, 1895PublishedCited by 32 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding.

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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed on February 26, 1890, by Cornelia Peeples, a minor, by her next friend, against Thomas R. Reid of Gallatin county, Illinois, administrator of the estate of George H. Potter, deceased, who died intestate on September 30, 1889, and who, in his lifetime, was a trustee under the agreements hereinafter set forth; John F. McCartney of Massac county, appointed on October 31, 1889, as successor in trust to said…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder

The original bill herein filed by one of the owners of the estate in remainder, and the cross-bill filed by the life tenants and the present trustee, seek to charge the administrator of the deceased trustee and the sureties on his bond with what is alleged to be due upon an accounting from the estate of said deceased trustee. The only defendants below, who appealed from the decree of the circuit court, were the sureties upon said bond.

The bill here is not a bill to enforce either of the agreements set forth in the record; nor is this a controversy between the parties to those agreements as to…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Young v. . YoungNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
  2. Wadhams v. Flagler GayIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
  3. Telford v. PattonIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  4. People v. SeelyeIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  5. Ryan v. Trustees of ShawneetownIllinois Supreme Court · 1852

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Christian v. ChristianAppellate Court of Illinois · 1979
  2. Morsman v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1937
  3. Van Horn v. StockhamSupreme Court of Iowa · 1922
  4. Geer v. GoudyIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
  5. Christensen v. Ogden State BankUtah Supreme Court · 1930

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