Baldwin v. Peoria Star Co.

Full title: Mildred Sidney Baldwin, Appellant, v. Peoria Star Company et al., Appellees

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District

Date published: Feb 12, 1943

317 Ill. App. 537 (Ill. App. Ct. 1943)

47 N.E.2d 127

Opinion

Gen. No. 9,783. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed February 12, 1943

GIFTS, § 32^_ — sufficiency of evidence. In proceeding to establish title to shares of stock alleged to have been acquired by plaintiff by way of gift inter vivos, evidence failed to establish existence of valid gift or plaintiff's right to stock, and hence decree dismissing complaint was proper and would be affirmed.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. JOHN T. CULBERTSON, JR., Judge, presiding.

Decree affirmed. Heard in this court at the October term, 1942.

Richard H. Radley, Sr., Joseph A. Weil, Mary D. Cassell, John Radley and Richard H. Radley, Jr., for appellant;

George Z. Barnes, Shelton F. McGrath and Clyde R. Birkett, for certain appellees. Jerome Crowley and Cassidy, Knoblock Sloan, for certain other appellees.

Opinion by JUSTICE DOVE.

Not to be published in full. Opinion filed February 12, 1943.