In re Estate of Ramlose

These consolidated appeals arise from four orders of the circuit court of Cook County freezing defendant Elmer Haneberg’s (Haneberg) assets and accounts and various real estate properties, defaulting him as a discovery sanction pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 219 (166 Ill. 2d R. 219), and transferring all pending matters to the decedent’s estate after closure of the guardianship estate. The first appeal arises from an order that was entered on February 14, 2002, freezing all of Haneberg’s accounts and assets and an order entered on May 15, 2002, which declined to vacate the February 14, 2002,…