Categories: Illinois Appellate Court Opinions

BALDWIN v. PEORIA STAR CO., 317 Ill. App. 537 (1943)

47 N.E.2d 127

Mildred Sidney Baldwin, Appellant, v. Peoria Star Company et al., Appellees.

Gen. No. 9,783. (Abstract of Decision.)Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District.
Opinion filed February 12, 1943

GIFTS, § 32[*] — sufficiency of evidence. In proceeding to establish title to shares of stock alleged to have been acquired by plaintiff by way of gift inter vivos, evidence failed to establish existence of valid gift or plaintiff’s right to stock, and hence decree dismissing complaint was proper and would be affirmed.

[*] See Callaghan’s Illinois Digest, same topic and sectionnumber.

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. JOHN T. CULBERTSON, JR., Judge, presiding.

Decree affirmed. Heard in this court at the October term, 1942.

Richard H. Radley, Sr., Joseph A. Weil, Mary D. Cassell, John Radley and Richard H. Radley, Jr., for appellant;

George Z. Barnes, Shelton F. McGrath and Clyde R. Birkett, for certain appellees. Jerome Crowley and Cassidy, Knoblock
Sloan, for certain other appellees.

Opinion by JUSTICE DOVE.

Not to be published in full. Opinion filed February 12, 1943.

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