IN RE ESTATE OF WELLMAN

Nos. 80182, 80184, 80246.

673 N.E.2d 272 (1996)

174 Ill.2d 335

220 Ill.Dec. 360

In re ESTATE OF John F. WELLMAN (Samuel H. Young, Appellant; Patrick T. Murphy, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Downing of Miller, Forest & Downing, Ltd., Glenview, for Samuel H. Young, executor, for appellant.

Samuel H. Young, Lincolnwood, appellant pro se.

Patrick T. Murphy, Public Guardian, and Lee Ann Lowder, Assistant Public Guardian of the Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, appellee.


Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

These consolidated appeals arise out of a series of events during the last years in the life of John Wellman. He executed a durable power of attorney, in which he appointed his attorney, Samuel Young, as his agent. Wellman also established joint tenancies with Young in several accounts. The circuit court of Cook County: adjudicated Wellman mentally disabled and appointed Patrick Murphy, the public guardian of Cook...

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