Emmert v. Hill

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Stephenson county directing J. Manley Clark, conservator of the appellee, Mary Emmert, to file in the office of the county clerk of said county a written renunciation of the benefits of all devises dr other provisions in her favor contained in the last will and testament of her deceased husband, Joseph Emmert, and allowing appellee solicitors’ fees. It is conceded by appellants that a -court of equity has the power, in a proper case, to renounce the provisions of a will made by a husband in favor of his insane widow. The real question in…