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  "name": "In re Estate of Joseph A. Marshall, Deceased. St. Louis Estes, Claimant, Appellee, v. Chicago Title and Trust Company, Executor, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "St. Louis Estes v. Chicago Title & Trust Co.",
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  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 28,318",
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      "In re Estate of Joseph A. Marshall, Deceased. St. Louis Estes, Claimant, Appellee, v. Chicago Title and Trust Company, Executor, Appellant."
    ],
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      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Matchett\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis is an appeal by the executor of an estate from a .judgment entered allowing a claim against said estate in the sum of $543. The matter was heard in the circuit court upon appeal taken by the claimant from the probate court, in which court a claim for the total sum of $5,184 was originally filed.\nThe record shows that when the matter came on for hearing in the probate court the claimant failed to prosecute his claim and that the same was dismissed by the court for want of prosecution. It was from this order that the claimant prayed-an appeal to the circuit court, which was allowed, and which he perfected by filing a bond for costs. Thereafter the executor filed its appearance in the circuit court and made a motion in writing that the appeal should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction, showing as ground therefor \u201cthat the said, appeal was from an order of the said Probate Court dismissing for want of prosecution a claim filed in that court by said appellant against the estate of Joseph A. Marshall, deceased, while said estate was being- administered under letters testamentary issued to this appellee; and, that the statute does not authorize an appeal in such case.\u201d This motion was denied by the court and the executor excepted. The claimant has not filed any brief in this court in support of the judgment.\nIt is apparent that the appeal from the probate court to the circuit court was pursuant to the provision of If 69 of chapter 3 of Cahill\u2019s Revised Statutes, which provides for an appeal \u201cin all cases of the allowance or rejection of claims.\u201d The section further provides that \u201csuch appeals shall be tried de novo in the circuit court.\u201d The section has been construed in Grier v. Cable, 159 Ill. 29, and Pence v. Pettett, 211 Ill. App. 588.\nWe do not think this section of the statute can be so construed as to authorize an appeal from an order of the probate court dismissing a claim for want of prosecution, and we think such appeals ought not to be allowed where, as here, there is no judgment for costs. The court was, therefore, without jurisdiction to hear the claim and the judgment must be reversed. We will add, however, that we have examined the evidence and are of the opinion that upon its merits the judgment could not be permitted to stand.\n\u25a0 Reversed.\nJohnston and McSurely, JJ., concur.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Matchett"
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    "attorneys": [
      "George C. Otto and William A. Barnes, for appellant.",
      "No appearance for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "In re Estate of Joseph A. Marshall, Deceased. St. Louis Estes, Claimant, Appellee, v. Chicago Title and Trust Company, Executor, Appellant.\nGen. No. 28,318.\nPbobate courts \u2014 order dismissing claim against estate for want of prosecution not appealable to circuit court. An order of the probate court dismissing a claim against the estate of a decedent for want of prosecution is not appealable to the circuit court under Cahill\u2019s Rev. St. ch. 3, If 69, providing for an appeal \u201cin all cases of the allowance or rejection of claims,\u201d especially where there is no judgment for costs.\nAppeal by defendant from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. Heard in the first division of this court for the first district at the March term, 1923.\nReversed.\nOpinion filed June 25, 1923.\nGeorge C. Otto and William A. Barnes, for appellant.\nNo appearance for appellee."
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