Appellate Court of Illinois, 1914

Webb v. Hunt

Webb v. Hunt
Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided July 28, 1914 · Higbee
190 Ill. App. 597

Webb v. Hunt

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee

delivered the opinion of the court.

2. Executors and administrators, § 86*—right of set-off in suit for collection of assets. Where an attorney employed hy a widow to settle her husband’s estate out of court sold the husband’s interest in his partnership business and received the money, hut refused to turn over the money to her without first deducting attorney’s fees and other items, and the widow thereafter took out letters of administration and brought suit as administratrix for the money, held that she was entitled to recover without any deduction for attorney’s fees whether she had previously agreed to pay them or not, for the reason that as administratrix she held title to the property for the estate.

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