Alderman v. Dystrup

This case comes to this court by granting a petition' for writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Second District affirming a decree of the circuit court in a proceeding to construe the will of Augustus S. Alderman, deceased. The question involved is whether legacies in money bequeathed by the testator to each of two daughters were made a charge against the testator’s real- estate devised to his son in the residuary clause of the will. The personal estate left by him was insufficient to pay the legacies in full. The circuit court interpreted the will not to mean…