Jenks v. Jackson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. G-wynn Gabnett, Judge, presiding. The second, fourth and fifth items of the will of Jerusha Maxwell, deceased, are as follows: “Item 2d—Subject to the above, I devise and bequeath all my property and estate whatsoever, which may belong to me in my own right, at my decease, to the children of Ophelia, the late wife of Joel C. Walter, in equal shares,—the share of Charles Joel to be vested in a trustee for him, as…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. G-wynn Gabnett, Judge, presiding. The second, fourth and fifth items of the will of Jerusha Maxwell, deceased, are as follows: “Item 2d—Subject to the above, I devise and bequeath all my property and estate whatsoever, which may belong to me in my own right, at my decease, to the children of Ophelia, the late wife of Joel C. Walter, in equal shares,—the share of Charles Joel to be vested in a trustee for him, as hereinafter provided. If any of said children should die before me, leaving issue living at my death, such issue to take the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bakee'
This is a bill for partition, exhibited in the Superior Court of Cook county, by Anson B. Jenks, claiming to be the owner, as trustee, of the legal title in fee of an undivided third of certain lands lying near the town of Pullman, and by Charles Joel Walter, his cestui que trust, claiming the equitable title in fee of said third interest in said lands. The defendants in the bill are Huntington W. Jackson and David B. Lyman, who are in possession and claim title as owners in fee of the whole of said lands under the wills of Dr. Philip Maxwell, deceased, and of his widow, Jerusha Maxwell,…
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