Pitzer v. Morrison

This is an appeal by the complainant from a decree of the circuit court of Shelby county dismissing his bill for partition. It involves a construction of the will of George W. Tilley, who was the owner of the land and died in 1908. He disposed of the land by the second clause of his will, which -was as follows:

"Second—To Susa'n E. Ivison I give and bequeath the west half of the south half of the northeast quarter of section ten (10), town ten (10), north, range two (2), east, in Shelby county, Illinois, for and during her life, at her death to go to her son, James Ivison. Should he die before…