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IN RE ESTATE OF BROOKS

No. 5-84-0277.

134 Ill. App.3d 993 (1985)

481 N.E.2d 759

In re ESTATE OF JAMES EDWARD BROOKS, Deceased (The United States of America, Appellant; Dorothy Moore, Ex'r of the Estate of James Edward Brooks, Appellee).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed June 14, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Hess, United States Attorney, and Michael Carr, Assistant United States Attorney, both of East St. Louis, and Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, of Washington, D.C., for appellant United States of America.

Michael L. Paup, William E. Estabrook, and Thomas A. Gick, all of Department of Justice, of Washington, D.C., for appellant United States of America.

Don E. Prosser, of Gilbert, Kimmel, Hoffman & Prosser, Ltd., of Carbondale, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE HARRISON delivered the opinion of the court:

The United States appeals from a judgment entered by the circuit court of Jackson County in a proceeding brought by the executrix of the estate of James Edward Brooks to obtain direction concerning competing claims of various creditors of the estate. The circuit court held, among other things, that the surviving spouse's and children's awards granted by sections 15-1 and 15-2 of the Illinois...

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