Kemmerer v. Kemmerer
Illinois Supreme Court
Appear from the Circuit Court of Christian county; the Hon. A. M. Rose, Judge, presiding. Philip B. Kemmerer died childless on December 25, 1905, at Assumption, in Christian county, where he had lived' for many years, leaving him surviving Sarah A. Kemmerer as his widow, and certain brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews, the appellees, as his heirs-at-law, and two certain instruments in his own handwriting, purporting to be a will and a codicil, and bearing date,…
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Appear from the Circuit Court of Christian county; the Hon. A. M. Rose, Judge, presiding. Philip B. Kemmerer died childless on December 25, 1905, at Assumption, in Christian county, where he had lived' for many years, leaving him surviving Sarah A. Kemmerer as his widow, and certain brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews, the appellees, as his heirs-at-law, and two certain instruments in his own handwriting, purporting to be a will and a codicil, and bearing date, respectively, October 9, 1884, and December 31, 1900, were admitted to probate as his last will and testament on February 5,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hand
The appellees have assigned as cross-errors that the trial court improperly declined to submit the question to a jury whether said instruments purporting to be a will and codicil were the last will and testament of Philip B. Kemmerer, deceased, and in holding that said instruments were duly proven as the last will and testament of Philip B. Kemmerer, deceased.
The original bill was filed by the executrix to obtain a construction of the provisions of said will, and the cross-bill, in so far as it attempted to impeach the judgment of the county court of Christian county in admitting said…
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