Legal Opinion
Boyter v. Atkinson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided September 11, 1901Published
Claim in Probate, for services rendered. Appeal iron the Circuit Court of Shelby County; the Hon. William M. Farmer, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Burroughs
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant, at the age of ten years, being an inmate of the Chicago Home for the Friendless under the nameof Isabella Sharkey, was taken therefrom October 19, 1867, by Jane Atkinson, an unmarried woman of the age of forty-two, residing with her father upon his farm in the town of Todd’s Point, in Shelby county, Illinois, to her father’s farm, under the following written agreement:
“ This indenture, made this 19th day of October, A. D. 1867, between the Chicago Home for the Friendless, party of the first part, and Miss Atkinson of…
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- Martin v. MartinAppellate Court of Illinois · 1900
- Graves v. SaffordAppellate Court of Illinois · 1891
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