Green v. Hewitt
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Scott county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed in the Scott county circuit court on the 12th day of December, 1878, by plaintiffs in error, against Amelia Hewitt, Ann Beedham and Sarah Boyal, for the partition of certain lands.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Scott county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed in the Scott county circuit court on the 12th day of December, 1878, by plaintiffs in error, against Amelia Hewitt, Ann Beedham and Sarah Boyal, for the partition of certain lands. The bill alleges that Elizabeth Green died intestate on the 14th of November, 1878, leaving her husband, Benjamin Green, and her sisters, Amelia Hewitt, Ann Beedham and Sarah Boyal; that at the time of her death Elizabeth Green was seized in fee of the premises mentioned in the bill; that…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
The whole controversy in this case turns upon the construction to be given to the second clause of the will of WiIlian C. Thompson, through which all the parties claim. It is as follows:
“ Second. After the payment of such debts and funeral expenses, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Thompson, the farm on which we now reside, situate in said county, and known and described as the north-east quarter of the south-west quarter of section seven, township fifteen,* range thirteen, also all my personal property of every description, so long as she remains my widow; at the expiration…
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