Anlicker v. Brethorst

This appeal is from a decree of the circuit court of Ford county entered on a verdict of a jury sustaining the will of Seipt L. Von Brethorst, which disposed of real and personal property located in Ford county and owned by testator at the time of his death and confirmed a deed theretofore made.

Testator was born in Germany on November 16, 1835, and came to this country in 1866. He attended school in Germany until he was eighteen years old. When he reached Illinois he was without capital and took employment as a farmhand. He married and raised five children, four of whom survive him. He is…