McCoy v. Fahrney
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Ogle county; the Hon. James S. Baume, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery for partition. The circuit court ruled the complainants in the bill and in the bill of interpleader had no title or interest in the premises involved, and dismissed the original bill and the bill of interpleader.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Ogle county; the Hon. James S. Baume, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery for partition. The circuit court ruled the complainants in the bill and in the bill of interpleader had no title or interest in the premises involved, and dismissed the original bill and the bill of interpleader. The complainants in the original bill and the bill of interpleader are the children of Elizabeth McCoy, deceased, by her second husband, James B. McCoy, Sr., and tlie children of deceased children of said Elizabeth McCoy by her said second husband. Said Elizabeth McCoy…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
The end to be attained by the interpretation or construction of the instrument is to ascertain the intention with which it was executed. That intention is declared in the premises of the deed to be to arrange to liquidate the debts of the said Samuel Ankeney “and to secure a permanent support and maintenance for the use of his wife and children.” One of the purposes of the premises of the deed is to set forth the recitals which may be necessary to an explanation of the deed and its operation and the reason for executing it. (Black’s Law Dic.; Anderson’s Law Dic.; 5 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law,…
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