FRENCH v. JEFFRIES

No. 8729.

149 F.2d 555 (1945)

FRENCH v. JEFFRIES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Adams and Beckman, Healy, Reid & Hough, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Harold L. Reeve, Robert W. Marriott, Jr., Charles R. Aiken, Benjamin G. Clanton, Earle F. Tilley, A. G. Humphrey, and Aiken, McCurry, Bennett & Cleary, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellees.

Before SPARKS, KERNER, and MINTON, Circuit Judges.


MINTON, Circuit Judge.

William Jeffries, a resident of Cook County, Illinois, died October 7, 1941, intestate. He left surviving him a widow, Nellie Jeffries, and an adopted son, William Jeffries, Jr. While the estate was in the process of settlement and in litigation in the state courts, one Harper French, a gambler who had not worked for twenty-five years, filed a suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Nellie Jeffries...

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