IN RE ESTATE OF MORRISON

No. 80-1948.

100 Ill. App.3d 891 (1981)

427 N.E.2d 363

In re ESTATE OF E.W. MORRISON, Deceased. — (GAITHER COLLIER, Indiv. and as Adm'r of the Estate of E.W. Morrison, Petitioner-Appellee, v. EDWARD ROSEWELL, Cook County Treasurer, et al., Respondents-Appellants — (E.W. MORRISON, Respondent).)

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Opinion filed September 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Jane Clark Casey, Peter S. Coorlas, Steven Pearlman, and James Babowice, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellants.

Stuart M. Weis & Associates, Ltd., of Chicago (Marsha F. Weis, of counsel), for appellee.


Order reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court:

Edward J. Rosewell, as county treasurer of Cook County, and the County of Cook by Bernard Carey, State's Attorney of Cook County, appeal from an order of the circuit court, probate division, finding E.W. Morrison to be presumed dead as of January 1, 1937, and granting letters of administration to Gaither Collier. The petition for letters of administration upon the presumption of death alleged...

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