IN RE ESTATE OF HOOVER

No. 73519.

615 N.E.2d 736 (1993)

155 Ill.2d 402

185 Ill.Dec. 866

In re ESTATE OF H. Earl HOOVER (Robert C. Hoover et al., Appellees, v. Miriam U. Hoover et al., Appellants).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

June 17, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Carroll, Sidley & Austin, Michael W. Coffield and John D. English, Coffield, Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, for appellants.

Michael T. Hannafan & Associates, Chicago, for appellees Nancy Hoover, Elizabeth Hoover, Courtney Hoover.

David L. Poindexter and Robert A. Holstein, Holstein, Mack & Klein and Jerold S. Solovy, Laura A. Kaster, Norman M. Hirsh and Patricia A. Bronte, Jenner & Block, Chicago, for appellees Robert C. Hoover et al.

Seymour F. Simon, Stanley J. Adelman, Michael R. Goldman and Frederic A. Cohen, Rudnick & Wolfe, Chicago, for appellee Richard S. Schiffrin.

Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, for appellees Robert A. Holstein, Holstein, Mack & Dupree.


Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, Robert C. Hoover and five of his seven children, brought this action in the circuit court of Cook County against the defendants, the executors and several beneficiaries of H. Earl Hoover's estate, to contest the validity of Mr. Hoover's will and several codicils. In their first amended complaint, plaintiffs alleged that Mr. Hoover's will and the last five codicils to the will were invalid because the...

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