Huffman v. Young
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. P. Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. This was a proceeding in chancery for partition and an accounting of rents, etc., brought by plaintiffs in error in the Vermilion circuit court.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. P. Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. This was a proceeding in chancery for partition and an accounting of rents, etc., brought by plaintiffs in error in the Vermilion circuit court. The bill alleges that the parties complainant and defendant are the owners of a strip of land sevénteen rods in width off the west side of the east half of section 20, township 21, north, range 11, west, in Vermilion county, Illinois, except about three acres off the south end; that they derived title thereto, by descent, from Charles S. Young, who died…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
Whether the 14-¡- acres of land in controversy are to be regarded as intestate property belonging to the heirs of Charles S. Young, deceased, and as such subject to partition, or whether they passed to the defendant Noah Young, depends upon the construction to be placed upon the will of Charles S. Young. The will was made an exhibit to the answer of Noah Young, and among other provisions it contains the following:
“Item S.—I give and devise to my son, Noah Young, the north-west quarter of section twenty-one (21), township twenty-one (21), north, range'number eleven (11), west of the second…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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