Mills v. Larrance

This was a bill brought by appellee for dower in one hundred and forty acres of land in Vermilion county, of which her late husband, Moses L. Larrance, died seized in 1896. The defense was that by his will duly executed in 1894 Moses L. Larrance had made a devise of other lands,—a farm of two hundred acres on which he and the complainant resided,-—to her for life, with remainder to John Larrance and Emily Canady, two of their nine children, and had provided that the rest of his land, said one hundred and forty acres, upon his death should be sold by his executor and the proceeds divided among…