Cleland v. Fish
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. D. M. Woodsok, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed in the Morgan Circuit Court, by Samuel Cleland and Ellen B. Cleland, against William H. Grest, Martha Y. Fish, W. T. Fish, Servis Hatfield, Anna J. Cassell, Charles Cassell, Susan Cassell, Catharine B. Cassell and James Berdan.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. D. M. Woodsok, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed in the Morgan Circuit Court, by Samuel Cleland and Ellen B. Cleland, against William H. Grest, Martha Y. Fish, W. T. Fish, Servis Hatfield, Anna J. Cassell, Charles Cassell, Susan Cassell, Catharine B. Cassell and James Berdan. The bill alleges, that complainant, Ellen, was the widow of Bathan H. Grest, and that, as such, there had been assigned to her as dower in her late husband’s estate, lot sixty-three in Jacksonville, Illinois, with other property, to hold for…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
When this case was previously before this court, the decree of the court below was reversed, and the bill dismissed. 33 111. 238. At a subsequent term of the court the decree of dismissal was modified, so as to make a dismissal without prejudice, that appellant might, by a new bill and proofs, establish such a relation of confidence and trust as rendered the concealment of the fact, that the remaindermen were willing to give a larger sum than was paid to Mrs. Cleland, for her life estate in the premises. This bill was afterward filed, and it is charged, that Fish was the son-in-law of…
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