Farmer v. Davis
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. George A. Sentel, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
This writ of error was sued out to review a decree of the circuit court of Moultrie county sustaining the validity of the will of Jane Freeman Spaugh, who died testate March 24, 1916. After the will was admitted to probate the bill to contest it was filed by the two sisters of the testatrix, Angeline Farmer and Mary Ann Jones, and Joseph T. Steele, a nephew. The only other heirs-at-law of the testatrix, Adda Jane Davis, a niece, Edward W. Steele, a nephew, and Sarah J. Elzy, a niece, were made defendants. Before the trial Mary Ann Jones died testate, leaving her husband, Amos Jones, sole…
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