Legal Opinion

Potter v. Potter

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1866PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery commenced by James M. Potter, Ephraim Potter, Mary Spicer, William Potter, Sterling Potter and William Potter, to the April Term, 1864, of the Wood-ford Circuit Court, against John Potter, William Potter, Albert Potter, Sereney Warner, Sinford Warner, Martha Warner, Joseph B. Warner, Catharine Harner, James Hamer, Albert Potter and Marian Potter.

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Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery commenced by James M. Potter, Ephraim Potter, Mary Spicer, William Potter, Sterling Potter and William Potter, to the April Term, 1864, of the Wood-ford Circuit Court, against John Potter, William Potter, Albert Potter, Sereney Warner, Sinford Warner, Martha Warner, Joseph B. Warner, Catharine Harner, James Hamer, Albert Potter and Marian Potter. The bill charges that the will to impeach which it was filed was procured to be made by the devisees and legatees named…

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker

This was a suit in chancery, commenced hy plaintiffs in error, in the Woodford Circuit Court, against defendants in error, for the purpose of setting aside and canceling a will under which defendants claimed to hold certain real estate described in the bill. It appears that Ephraim Potter, on the 11th day of December, 1860, executed an instrument in writing purporting to be his last will and testament. That he died in January, 1861, leaving complainants and defendants as his heirs at law. JBy that instrument he divided his real estate, and bequeathed his personal property to his widow and to…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Rigg v. WiltonIllinois Supreme Court · 1851
  2. Swift v. WhitneyIllinois Supreme Court · 1858

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Harp v. ParrIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
  2. O'Brien v. BonfieldIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
  3. People v. MartinAppellate Court of Illinois · 2017
  4. Gallagher v. KilkearyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1888
  5. People v. MartinAppellate Court of Illinois · 2017

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