Legal Opinion

Vermilion County Children's Home v. Varner

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 24, 1901PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. F. Bookwalter, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright

On June 23, 1888, James Waters made and acknowledged his warranty deed of eighty acres of land in Vermilion county to Louis Booth and Phebe Booth, his wife, The deed contained a provision that it should be the property and subject to the order of the grantor for and during his natural life, and that it should be held in trust by a third and disinterested party to be designated by said grantor, for and during tlie term of his natural life and to be delivered thereafter to said grantees for record, provided the grantor had not demanded it and taken possession and destroyed it before his…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Evans v. WoodsworthIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
  2. Holland v. RichardsIllinois Supreme Court · 1955
  3. Mattison-Greenlee Service Corp. v. CulhaneCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1939
  4. Adkins v. ArshtDistrict Court, E.D. Illinois · 1943
  5. Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co. v. JilekDistrict Court, E.D. Illinois · 1942

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