Walters v. Merc. Nat. Bank of Chicago

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county by Frederick W. Walters, who became a party to the suit on his petition for leave to intervene. The decree appealed from construed and held invalid one provision only in the last will and testament of J. Albert Roesch, Jr., deceased. The condition of the record is such that a full statement of the facts is necessary to a correct understanding of the procedure followed in the court below and the questions presented on this appeal.

J. Albert Roesch, Jr., was a resident of River Forest, Illinois. In February, 1915, he, together…