Kern v. Kern

This'is a bill filed in the circuit court of Moultrie county for the partition of certain lands in that county owned at the time of his death by John A. Kern. The case involves the construction of Kern’s will and three codicils thereto, as affected by the renunciation filed by the testator’s widow. The circuit court entered a decree construing the will and finding the interests of the various owners and ordered a partition. Prom that decree certain of the testator’s children prayed an appeal to this court.'

John A. Kern died in 1918, leaving his widow, Laura B. Kern, him surviving, and seven…