Estate of Austin v. Austin

The First Trust & Savings Bank, as trustee, filed a petition in the probate court of Cook county, praying that the court require the respondent, Frederick C. Austin, as executor of the estate of his deceased wife, Anna B. Austin, to inventory as part of the estate, a certain pearl necklace, and to deliver it to the bank as trustee, under a codicil to the will of the deceased. After a hearing in that court the petition was dismissed. Upon appeal to the circuit court of Cook county and a hearing in that court, a decree was entered again dismissing the petition from which decree the bank has…