Legal Opinion

Stevenson v. Stevenson

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 18, 1918No. 11647PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hancock county; the Hon. Harry M. Waggoner, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Chile Justice Duncan

delivered the opinion of the court:

John Stevenson died August 31, 1916, leaving surviving him Margaret Stevenson, his widow, and Thomas M. Stevenson, Nettie Hancock, Ralph W. Stevenson, John Franklin Stevenson and Emma Gunning, as his only children, and seven grandchildren, children of two deceased daughters, as his only heirs-at-law. He died seized of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 5; the middle third and the north half of the east third of the northeast quarter, the east half of the east half of the southwest quarter, a strip ten feet wide…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Patch v. WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  2. Kurtz v. HibnerIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
  3. Decker v. DeckerIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
  4. Pate v. BushongIndiana Supreme Court · 1903
  5. Riggs v. MyersSupreme Court of Missouri · 1855

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Scott v. CrumbaughIllinois Supreme Court · 1943
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  3. Moody Bible Institute v. PettiboneAppellate Court of Illinois · 1937
  4. Tomlin v. LawsIllinois Supreme Court · 1922
  5. Leininger v. ReichleIllinois Supreme Court · 1925

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