Dowling v. Gilliland
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. JusTfcE Stone
delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an appeal by Henrietta H. Guinness from the decree of the circuit court of Cook county sustaining the will of Lavinus B. Willden after a hearing before a jury upon bill filed by contestants to contest said will on the ground that it had been revoked by the testator.
The testator, Lavinus B. Willden, executed the will in question August 24, 1894, by which he devised and bequeathed all of his property to his sister Ella E. M. Gilliland and his half-brother, Lewis C. E. Lateer, share and share alike, and provided that Lateer should be…
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