Legal Opinion

Wood v. Sheffer

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 25, 1911PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Jasper county; the Hon. Thomas M. Jett, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cooke

delivered the-opinion of the court:

On May 22, 1909, appellees filed their petition in the circuit court of Jasper county against Margaret A. Sheffer, M. W. Hanna, and A. S. Foullcs as administrator of the estate of John Stephens, deceased, for the partition of 320 acres of land in Jasper county, alleging that John Stephens, then a resident of Ness county, Kansas, died intestate December 17, 1908, leaving him surviving Rebecca E. Wood, Alice E. Barker, Frank J. Stephens, James H. Stephens, Alfred E. Stephens and Margaret A. Sheffer, his children; Byrd Schaefer, Clara Young and June Young,…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Stow v. RussellIllinois Supreme Court · 1864
  2. Hoyt v. TuxburyIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
  3. Cronk v. TrumbleIllinois Supreme Court · 1872
  4. Milnor v. WillardIllinois Supreme Court · 1864

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Mitchell v. WhiteIllinois Supreme Court · 1920
  2. Willhite v. SchurtzIllinois Supreme Court · 1920
  3. Strauss v. BorgAppellate Court of Illinois · 1912

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