Stone v. Baldwin

Claude U. Stone, appellee, executor and trustee under the will of Fannie G-. Baldwin, deceased, filed his resignation and first and final report as trustee in the circuit court of Peoria county where the trust was pending. Helen Baldwin Smith and Margaret Baldwin Holley, appellants, made objections to the reports. After a lengthy hearing (the abstract of the record of the proceedings consisted of 441 pages), on July 31, 1951, the chancellor overruled all objections to the report. The court decreed that the fair value of Stone’s services as a trustee from January 1, 1939 to January 1, 1944…