Christy v. Pulliam
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of ejectment, to recover the possession of a certain tract of land situate in St. Clair county. Declaration contains but one count; plaintiff claims an estate in fee in said land. The cause was tried by the court and jury.
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This was an action of ejectment, to recover the possession of a certain tract of land situate in St. Clair county. Declaration contains but one count; plaintiff claims an estate in fee in said land. The cause was tried by the court and jury. Plaintiff showed a connected title of record from the United States to one Joseph Ogle, and produced the last will of said Joseph Ogle, duly proved, which will contained the following provisions: “Also I give and bequeath to the above named Lucy Ogle, to have and to hold during her natural life, the land that I now own and reside on, to occupy and use the…
1Opinion of the CourtScates, C. J.
The testator provided for the payments of his debts and funeral expenses out of his personalty and gave the remainder to his wife forever. He also devised to his wife the land upon which he lived, viz.: “ To have and to hold during her natural life the land that I now own and reside on, to occupy and use the said land in the same way as it would be lawful for her to do if the title were full and complete in her.” He further devised, at the death of his wife, two other tracts, a forty and a thirty-five acre tract, to certain nephews, by metes and bounds, (which by codicil he revoked as to them…
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