Legal Opinion

Ross v. Smith

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided May 25, 1893PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Whiteside County; the Hon. James Shaw, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright

By the will of Luman A. Sanford, deceased, the use of his personal property was given to his widow, G-uley E. Sanford, for her life, but the principal was not to be used or disposed of by her, and was to go to his children after her death.

The estate was settled by an administrator, with the will annexed. The only personal property inventoried consisted of certain notes, which, when collected, amounted to $Y93.15, and the testator left none of the articles of personal property enumerated in the statute which pass to a widow as her sole and exclusive property under the name of the widow’s…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Deltzer v. ScheusterIllinois Supreme Court · 1865

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Sjoli v. HogensonNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1909

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