ESTATE OF DEVEREUX v. URIST

No. 38190.

31 Ill.2d 210 (1964)

201 N.E.2d 430

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY DEVEREUX. — (FRANK H. KIRK, EXR., Appellant, v. BERNARD D. URIST, Conservator, et al., Appellees.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 29, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

FRANK H. KIRK, RICHARD D. PRICE, and FREDERICK J. BERTRAM, all of Chicago, for appellant.

OWEN RALL, PETER M. SFIKAS, JOHN J. ENRIGHT, and ISADORE J. STEIN, all of Chicago, (PETERSON, LOWRY, RALL, BARBER & Ross, of counsel,) for appellee Bernard D. Urist.

A. EDMUND PETERSON, DANIEL S. WENTWORTH and JOHN H. MEYER, all of Chicago, for appellee Berry Homes.


Cause transferred.

Mr. JUSTICE DAILY delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a direct appeal from an order of the probate court of Cook County approving a report of the sale of real property in the matter of the estate of Mary Devereux, who had been adjudged an incompetent some months earlier. As grounds for our jurisdiction to entertain the direct appeal it is asserted that a freehold is involved, and that "the rights of Mary Devereux under the due process...

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