Willetts v. Willetts
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by Harriet Willetts, against Milton L. Willetts, in the Mercer circuit court, to cancel an agreement to provide separate maintenance for the complainant, a mortgage to secure the same, a lease to her for life, and a release by her of her.dower in the estate of the defendant, her husband, made and entered into on July 5, 1880, and then provide separate maintenance other and different from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dickey
The record in this case has been examined and considered with care. We are of opinion that no cause is found requiring that the decree of the circuit court should be disturbed. The deeds and contracts and other papers, which are set aside by the decree of the circuit court, were executed and accepted by Mrs. Willetts under such circumstances that we think the court was fully warranted in the conclusion that her acts were so far affected by the undue influence of her husband that she has a right to have- the same set aside. This being done, the allowance decreed to her as a separate "support…
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