Brack v. Boyd
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Williamson county; the Hon. W. M. BuTlLR, Judge# presiding. In September, 1884, Allen L. Ralls and Sallie A. R., his wife, filed in the county court of Williamson county a petition for the adoption of Mary J. Singleton as their child. In 1885 the said Mary J. was married to one John Boyd and in 1892 died intestate, leaving her husband and Alec and Mattie Boyd, her children and only heirs-at-law.
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Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Williamson county; the Hon. W. M. BuTlLR, Judge# presiding. In September, 1884, Allen L. Ralls and Sallie A. R., his wife, filed in the county court of Williamson county a petition for the adoption of Mary J. Singleton as their child. In 1885 the said Mary J. was married to one John Boyd and in 1892 died intestate, leaving her husband and Alec and Mattie Boyd, her children and only heirs-at-law. In 1887 the said Allen L. Ralls died testate, seized of eighty acres of land in said county, and leaving surviving him Sallie A. R., his widow, and said Mary J.,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The decree rendered by the circuit court in case No. 717 finds all of the allegations in complainants’ bill to be true as therein stated, and expressly finds, among other things, “that by virtue of the decree of adoption entered by the county court of Williamson county on September 16, 1884, Mary J. Singleton, the-mother of complainants, was then and there, in accordance with the statute in such cases made and provided, duly adjudged and decreed by the said county court to be the adopted child of said petitioners, Allen L. Ralls and Sallie A. R. Ralls, his wife; and that it was duly adjudged…
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