Morey v. Hoffman

This appeal comes to this court from the circuit court of Sangamon County, questioning the propriety of an order of that court which vacated an order and decree theretofore entered which the appellant claims approved in advance the sale of an asset known as the Esquire Apartment Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in accordance with the requirements of a certain deed and indenture of trust. A freehold being involved, the appeal is taken directly to this court.

Orville E. Hodge, formerly Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois, in the summer of 1956, admitted the conversion to his…