ALLEN v. NAT. BANK OF AUSTIN

Gen. No. 47,324.

19 Ill. App.2d 149 (1958)

153 N.E.2d 260

Ann J. Allen, Edna M. Sargent and Ruth E. Nugent, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. National Bank of Austin, a National Banking Association, Defendant-Appellee, Myra Johnson, Joseph H. Allen, Lilly Woodfin, Fifteenth Church of Christ, Scientist, a Religious Corporation, Defendants, and Home for Destitute Crippled Children, a Not-for-Profit Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Released for publication October 23, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pritchard, Heath, Montgomery & Pennington, of Chicago (John R. Heath, David M. Sloan, of counsel) for Home for Destitute Crippled Children, defendant-appellant.

Holton, Tews & Abbey, of Chicago (Charles R. Holton, of counsel) for plaintiffs-appellees.


JUSTICE SCHWARTZ delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by the residuary legatee, Home for Destitute Crippled Children, from an order directing the executors of the estate of Lillian E. Allen to distribute to the plaintiffs shares of corporate stock which accrued as the result of stock splits, together with dividends paid thereon after the testatrix's death. Lillian E. Allen, a spinster 80 years old, executed her will November 15, 1950. Her estate at...

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