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      "Mary E. Blair, Lucia D. Ford, Margaret J. Harwood, Charles J. Burton and Edward A. Burton v. George A. Follansbee, Adm."
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        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nDuring the lifetime of Stephen Burton, the appellee\u2019s intestate executed and delivered to him a paper in writing as follows :\n\u201c $12,500.\nReceived from Stephen Burton, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, on which sum I agree to pay him interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, so long as he shall live, interest payable semi-annually.\n\u201c And within eighteen months after the death of said Stephen Burton, I agree to pay said principal sum in manner following: $2,500 to Lucia D. Ford, or her heirs; $2,500 to Mary E. Blair, or her heirs; $2,500 to Margaret J. Harwood, or her heirs; $2,500 to Charles J. Burton, or his heirs; $2,500 to Edward A. Burton, or his heirs, together with interest on said several sums of money last mentioned at six per cent per annum from the date of the payment of the last installment of interest to Stephen Burton, until paid. ' Interest and principal payable at my office in Chicago, Illinois.\nEdwin Bean.\nChicago, April 6, 1881.\u201d\nThe said Stephen Burton died September 22, 1889, and the appellants are the persons mentioned in the writing as ultimate payees of the money. The said Edwin Bean died October 7, 1890, and appellee is administrator of his estate. Within apt time the appellants filed their claim, predicated upon said writing, in the Probate Court of this county, against Bean\u2019s estate, and petitioned \u2019 that the same be allowed as a preferred claim under class 6, Sec. 70, Chap. 3, Rev. Stat., entitled \u201c Administration of Estates,\u201d upon the ground that the writing constitutes an express trust within the meaning of said class 6.\nThe Probate Court refused to allow the claim as of class 6, but ordered and allowed it as of class 7, which placed it upon a level with all claims having no quality or dignity entitling them to a preference.\nUpon appeal to the Circuit Court by the claimants, a like order was made, and now this court is appealed to.\nOn the trial, it was shown that on the same day of giving the above instrument, Bean executed to Burton a mortgage on real estate, wherein it was recited that Bean was \u201c justly indebted \u201d to Burton in the sum of $12,500, evidenced by his certain instrument in writing of that date, and that on April 3, 1882, Burton released the mortgage, but expressly recited in the release that it was \u201c not in satisfaction of said debt.\u201d\nThere was no recital in the mortgage, any' more than there is in the writing in question, declaratory of any trust.\nWe can not put into a document a meaning that itself does not warrant. Looking at the paper, it appears to be no more nor less than an acknowledgment of an indebtedness for money loaned to Bean, upon which he agreed to pay interest to one person until the happening of a certain event, and eighteen months from the happening of that event, to pay the principal sum and interest, unpaid and to accrue, to other persons.\nTo hold such an agreement to constitute a trust in the promisor for the benefit of the persons named of the ultimate payees of the fund, would be to hold, in effect, that every promissory note which should not mature during the lifetime of the payee, who remained the holder at his death, would evidence a trust fund in the hands of the maker for the benefit of the heirs or personal representatives of the payee. In the latter case, the law would with equal certainty point out the persons entitled to the money, as in this case the parties did by their own act. We refer to Weer v. Gand, 88 Ill. 490; Svanoe v. Jurgens, 144 Ill. 507; Steele v. Clark, Adm., 77 Ill. 471.\nWe do not deem it to be necessary to add anything because of the fact that both Burton and Bean styled the transaction as a debt and not as a trust, in the mortgage and release deed.\nThe judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard"
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    "attorneys": [
      "W. D. Washburn, attorney for appellants.",
      "Frank Assury Johnson, attorney for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Mary E. Blair, Lucia D. Ford, Margaret J. Harwood, Charles J. Burton and Edward A. Burton v. George A. Follansbee, Adm.\n1. Express Trust\u2014When Created.\u2014The following language\u2014\u201c Received from Stephen Burton, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, on which sum I agree to pay him interest * * * so long as he shall live, interest payable semi-annually. And within eighteen months after the death of said Stephen Burton, I agree to pay said principal sum in manner following: $2,500 to Lucia D. Ford, or her heirs * * * with interest on said several sums of money,\u201d * * * does not create an express trust allowable against an estate as a preferred claim of the sixth class.\nAdministration of Estates.\u2014Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Charles G. Neely, Judge, presiding.\nHeard in this court at the October term, 1896.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 19, 1896.\nW. D. Washburn, attorney for appellants.\nFrank Assury Johnson, attorney for appellee."
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