Tolley v. Wilson
Illinois Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilson
A decree entered by the circuit court of Fulton county construed the last will and testament of Elizabeth Wilson and ordered partition of certain real estate. Seven children, and the heirs-at-law of two other children of the deceased brothers and sisters of the testatrix, prosecute this appeal.
Elizabeth Wilson, a resident of Fulton county, died testate on October 27, 1877. She left surviving as her only heirs-at-law, Samuel Wilson, her husband, who died in 1889, and Charles W. Wilson, their son and only child. Two half-brothers, six brothers and sisters of the whole blood, and children of two…
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