Bruce v. Maxwell

This appeal is prosecuted by Jonathan White from a decree of the circuit court of Peoria county. The case is complicated by the pleadings, but the principal question involved is the construction and effect to be given to a deed executed by John Farrell on September 14, 1912. Farrell at that time was about eighty years old and had lived in Peoria a long time. He had been married four times. One of his wives died and he had been divorced from the others. By one of his wives he had four children, who survived him. At the time Farrell made the deeds hereafter referred to, he was the owner of…