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Smith, in re Estate of

Appellate Court of Illinois
Feb 14, 1940
304 Ill. App. 25 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

Opinion

Gen. No. 9,491. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed February 14, 1940

ESTATES OF DECEDENTS, § 295claim based on note, sufficiency of evidence. Judgment was properly entered for claimant against estate on a promissory note, where such note was given by decedent to his daughter for a pre-existent debt, the note was acknowledged as an indebtedness which he intended to pay after decedent had been discharged in bankruptcy, and several witnesses testified to subsequent payments and indorsements on the note.

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

Appeal from Circuit Court of Lee county; Hon. ALBERT H. MANUS, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in this court at October term, 1939.

Henry C. Warner and Clyde Smith, for appellant;

B. Jay Knight, J.E. Goembel and Robert L. Bracken, for appellee;

Frederick H. Haye, of counsel.


"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed February 14, 1940.


Summaries of

Smith, in re Estate of

Appellate Court of Illinois
Feb 14, 1940
304 Ill. App. 25 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
Case details for

Smith, in re Estate of

Case Details

Full title:In re Estate of Charles W. Smith, Deceased. Harriet E. Levings, Appellee…

Court:Appellate Court of Illinois

Date published: Feb 14, 1940

Citations

304 Ill. App. 25 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)
25 N.E.2d 836