Thomas v. Miller
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. T. M. Shaw, Judge, presiding. This was a bill brought by the appellants, the widow, children and administratrix of John A. Thomas, deceased, for the assignment of dower and partition of the east half of the south-east quarter of section 31, township 10, north, range 7, east of the fourth principal meridian, which Thomas acquired by purchase; also the north-west quarter of section 8; also fifty-five acres of the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. T. M. Shaw, Judge, presiding. This was a bill brought by the appellants, the widow, children and administratrix of John A. Thomas, deceased, for the assignment of dower and partition of the east half of the south-east quarter of section 31, township 10, north, range 7, east of the fourth principal meridian, which Thomas acquired by purchase; also the north-west quarter of section 8; also fifty-five acres of the south-west quarter of section 5, being that part lying south of the Peoria and Knoxville road; and also the south-east quarter…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Craig
There is no controversy over the eighty-acre tract of land which John A. Thomas acquired by purchase. The controversy in the circuit court and in this court is in regard to the construction of the will of Gideon Thomas, deceased. In 1856 Gideon Thomas, a farmer of Peoria county, then sixty-five years old, owning a farm of two hundred and fifty-five acres and a large amount of personal property, executed his will. In 1861 he died seized of the farm and personal property valued at $12,000. On the 21st day of March, 1861, the will of the deceased was admitted to probate in the county court of…
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