Clark v. Leavitt

This cause comes by appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Piatt county appointing a trustee to sell certain real estate and for distribution of the proceeds of the sale. The basis of the bill for the appointment of a trustee and for sale of the real estate was the will of Charles A. Clark, who died January 17, 1901, seized of all of the real estate in controversy. By that will he devised his real estate to his daughter and only child, Stella M. Clark, subject to the condition that should she die without having had issue the property should be sold and divided among the testator’s…