Longshore v. Longshore
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Prank D. Ramsay, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a decree assigning dower, and for partition, rendered by the circuit court of Henry county. Samuel J. Longshore died intestate in September, 1901, owning about one thousand acres of land in said county, leaving him surviving appellee Marie D. Long-shore, his widow, and his daughters, Ernestine Boltenstern, Hannah E. Longshore, Marie G. Longshore and Caroline IST.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Prank D. Ramsay, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a decree assigning dower, and for partition, rendered by the circuit court of Henry county. Samuel J. Longshore died intestate in September, 1901, owning about one thousand acres of land in said county, leaving him surviving appellee Marie D. Long-shore, his widow, and his daughters, Ernestine Boltenstern, Hannah E. Longshore, Marie G. Longshore and Caroline IST. Longshore, and his son, the appellant, his heirs-at-law. The widow and said daughters, except Boltenstern, joined in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
The only question presented for decision is whether or not, in this proceeding, the appellant has the right to have the widow’s dower in the eighty acres which his father conveyed to him, assigned out of the lands sought to be divided and which descended to the other heirs-at-law. Appellant’s contention that he has this right is combated by appellees on three grounds: First, that the subject matter of the cross-bill is not germane to that of complainants’ bill; second, that the remedy of appellant for breach of the covenants of warranty in the deed of his father to him, if there is any such…
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