Rucker v. Redmon

Citations

• 67 Ill. 187

Syllabus

<p>1. Administrator—liability fm-loss through neglect of duty. Where an administratrix of an estate deposited a large sum of collections in a bank, where she suffered it to remain for a long time, and neglected to make her yearly report to the county court and obtain an order to pay out such money, until after such bank became insolvent, and the same was lost: Held, that notwithstanding the credit of the bank was good at the time of the deposit, she was liable to account for the sum so lost, on account of her neglect of duty to make yearly reports and pay out the money on the order of the court, before the failure of the bank.</p> <p>2. In such case the fact of the pendency of a suit in chancery in another county to settle her right to participate in the distribution of the estate, according to the terms of a marriage settlement, and to restrain her from receiving more than a child’s share of the estate, there being no injunction issued in fact, was held not to relieve her from the consequences of such neglect of duty.</p>