Christenson v. Board of Charities

Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.

On January 11, 1926, in the superior court of Cool? county, plaintiff, as executor, etc., commenced an action in assumpsit against defendant, a charitable organization, to recover the sum of $2,200, which defendant had received from Neis Person during his lifetime, and which in equity and good conscience (as plaintiff claimed) belonged to Person’s estate. The declaration consisted of the common counts, to which defendant filed a plea of the general issue and also a plea (after-wards withdrawn) of the statute of limitations of…