Stone v. Stone

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county ordering that the will of John A. Stone be admitted to probate. The testator died January 7, 1917? in Chicago, leaving him surviving one son and five daughters, and his widow, Mabel B. Stone. The widow was his second wife and not the mother of his children. He died seized of real and personal property in Cook county valued at about $13,500. January 10, 1917, the widow presented an instrument as the last will and testament of the deceased, dated June 14, 1916, which provided that she should have a life estate in all his…