Illinois Christian Missionary Society v. American Christian Missionary Society

Appellants and appellee are the beneficiaries under the last will and testament of Thomas E. Bondurant, who died in Piatt county January 16, 1905. He died seized of between 900 and 1000 acres of real estate in that county. By the first, second and third clauses of his will he provided that his debts be paid; devised to his sister, Mary E. Bondurant, his homestead in fee, together with all the personal property cpntained in and used in connection with his home, and bequeathed to her the sum of $2000 per year during each and every year of her natural life. The payment of this annuity was made a…