Crean v. Hourigan
Appellate Court of Illinois
Contest of a Nuncupative Will.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Alexander County; the Hon. Alonzo K. Vickers, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1894.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sample
On the 30th day of December, 1893, the nuncupative will of Margaret Hourigan, deceased, was admitted to probate in the Probate Court of Alexander County, which bequeathed her property to her brother, Maurice Crean. The deceased’s husband, Michael Hourigan, appealed from the order ad-, mitting said will to probate, to the Circuit Court, where, on trial before the court, probate was refused, from which latter order this appeal is prosecuted.
The evidence shows that on the 22d day of December, 1893, Margaret Hourigan was very sick at the hospital in the city of Cairo; that in the forenoon of that…
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