Moore v. Sweeney

The material facts in this case are as follows: Isaac Loucks died at Clinton, De Witt county, June 25, 1879, leaving a will by which he devised and bequeathed all his property of every kind to his wife, Larney Loucks, and appointed her sole executrix, requesting that she be not required to give a bond or file an inventory as such. He left no minor child. The property consisted of household furniture of value not exceeding §50, and the homestead lot eight, in block one, of Madden’s First Addition to Clinton. On May 15, 1882, the widow presented the will for probate and it was admitted, but she…