ORME v. NORTHERN TRUST CO.

Gen. No. 47,821.

29 Ill. App.2d 75 (1961)

172 N.E.2d 413

Eugene Orme, Individually and Thomas D. Nash, as Administrator with the Will Annexed of the Estate of Louise de Haven, Deceased, Appellees, v. The Northern Trust Company, etc., et al. On Appeal of William P. Rogers, Attorney General of the United States, etc.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Rehearing denied February 9, 1961.

Rehearing denied and opinion modified February 27, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dallas S. Townsend, Assistant Attorney General, Director, Office of Alien Property, Chicago, Illinois; R. Tieken, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Arthur R. Schor and William H. Arkin, for William P. Rogers, Attorney General, defendant-appellant.

Roland Towle, Floyd E. Thompson, and Thomas P. Sullivan, of Chicago, for appellee cross-appellants Adelheit von Hardenberg, Irmgard von Alten and Irmgard von Schiller; Clausen, Hirsh, Miller, and Gorman, of Chicago (Norman A. Miller and Jerome H. Torshen, of counsel) for defendant cross-appellant Alice Lohrer; C. Lysle Smith and John Alden Powers, of Chicago, for Eugene Orme, Individually, and Thomas D. Nash, Jr., as Administrator De Bonis Non with the Will Annexed of the Estate of Louise de Haven, Deceased, plaintiffs cross-appellants, appellees, and cross-appellees; Dallstream, Schiff, Hardin, Waite & Dorschel, of Chicago, (Lester G. Britton, of counsel) for defendant-appellee and cross-appellant, The Northern Trust Company, as Trustee under the Will of Louise de Haven, Deceased.


PRESIDING JUSTICE KILEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit to construe the will of Mrs. Louisa G. Bigelow, made in Geneva, Switzerland in 1873. Her three minor granddaughters were named primary beneficiaries. In 1941 Louise de Haven, one of the granddaughters, died testate in the United States devising her interest in the Bigelow estate to plaintiff Orme. He sued for construction of the will in 1943 and in 1959 a decree was entered adverse to him....

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