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IN RE ESTATE OF ELLIS

No. 1-07-1793.

887 N.E.2d 467 (2008)

In re ESTATE OF Grace ELLIS, Deceased. (Shriners Hospital for Children, Petitioner-Appellant v. James G. Bauman, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Grace Ellis, Deceased, Respondent-Appellee (John W. Ellis, Robert E. Ludlow, William E. Ludlow, Kenneth R. Ellis, Robert K. Ellis, Robert W. Burrill, Sharon Burrill Roark, Kenneth B. Burrill, Harding E. van Schaack, Suzanne Kirchoff, Beatrice V.S. Bock, Margaret E. Warkentin, Wendy Ludlow, Elizabeth Hedquist, William Ellis, and Frances Haswell, Respondents)).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

March 28, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne T. Lofthouse and Andrew Lofthouse, Wayne T. Lofthouse & Associates, for Appellant.

Kerry R. Peck, Ray J. Koenig III and Timothy J. Ritchey, Peck, Bloom, Austriaco & Mitchell, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Appellee.

Presiding Justice McBRIDE delivered the opinion of the court:

Shriners Hospitals for Children (Shriners) appeals from a circuit court order dismissing with prejudice its "Petition to Contest Will and for Other Relief." The issue on appeal is whether the six month period set out in section 8-1 of the Probate Act of 1975 applies to a claim for tortious interference with an inheritance expectancy. 755 ILCS 5/8-1 (West 2004).

Decedent Grace Ellis, of Skokie, Illinois...

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