Legal Opinion

Richie v. Cox

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided December 10, 1901Published

Petition to Sell Beal Estate, to pay a deficit of the testator’s obligations. Error to the County Court of Macoupin County; the Hon. David E. Keefe, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1901.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Burroughs

delivered the opinion of the court.

Charles C. Capps, late of Macoupin county, Illinois, died testate in March, 1897, leaving as his widow, Lillie Capps, now Lillie Capps Cox, the defendant in error, and leaving no children or descendant of a child or children him surviving. At the time of his death, he was seized of the following described real estate situated in Macoupin county, Illinois, to wit:

The northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section Mo. two (2), and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section Mo. two (2), and fifteen acres off…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Towle v. SwaseyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
  2. Carper v. CrowlIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  3. Deltzer v. ScheusterIllinois Supreme Court · 1865
  4. Cruce v. CruceIllinois Supreme Court · 1858

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