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ACKERMAN v. ELMONT LUMBER CO.

Gen. No. 50,626.

69 Ill. App.2d 477 (1966)

217 N.E.2d 427

Edith Goffen Ackerman, Individually and as Coexecutor of the Estate of Harry Goffen, Deceased, and Walter G. Ackerman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Elmont Lumber Company, a Corporation, Isadore Goffen, as Coexecutor of the Estate of Harry Goffen, Deceased, Leona Cohen Goffen, Robert L. Ackerman, Melanie Goffen, Lawrence Goffen, the State of Israel, and William G. Clark, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Defendants-Appellees, and Theodore C. Argiris, Guardian Ad Litem for Minor Defendants, Robert L. Ackerman, Melanie Goffen and Lawrence Goffen, Defendants-Appellees, and Arthur Ellis, Successor Trustee Under the Last Will and Testament of Harry Goffen, Deceased, Appellee, and Isadore Goffen, Individually, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

April 11, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter V. Fazio and Edward Atlas, of Chicago, for appellant.

Schiff, Hardin, Waite, Dorschel & Britton, of Chicago (Milton H. Cohen and Alexander Polikoff, of counsel), for appellee, Edith Goffen Ackerman.

MR. JUSTICE BURMAN delivered the opinion of the court.

In this appeal, defendant Isadore Goffen challenges the order of the Chancellor taxing him with half of the $4,000 fee awarded the guardian ad litem in the proceeding below. Goffen claims that the Chancellor was required to tax the full costs of the litigation, including the guardian ad litem's fee, against the plaintiffs, Edith Goffen Ackerman and her husband Walter G. Ackerman; or, in the alternative, that the...

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