Peters v. Peters

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

Mary A. Peters, a widow, died testate on September 6, 1938, leaving surviving, as her heirs-at-law, four children, Esther A., James H., George W. Peters, and Mabel Peters Carpenter, and also six grandchildren, the latter being the children of two deceased sons. At the time of her death, Mary Peters was the sole and undisputed owner of a farm of approximately 360 acres in Whiteside county, Illinois. After providing for the payment of her debts and making small bequests to certain grandchildren, she devised an undivided one-fourth…