Legal Opinion

Roberson v. Tippie

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 20, 1904PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Franklin county; the Hon. P. A. Pearce, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin

On March 27, 1903, appellant filed her bill against appellees, who are the children and heirs-at-law of Levi Y. Roberson, deceased, to enforce the specific performance of a contract. The allegations of the bill are as follows: On September 29, 1889, the appellant, at the age of twenty-nine years, was married to Levi Y. Roberson, who was then sixty-one years of age. Bach had been previously married and eight children had been born to the said Levi by his former wife, all of whom had reached their majority and left home before his marriage with appellant. The appellant had one child by her…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Kitterlin v. Milwaukee Mechanic's Mutual InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1890

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Sterling Savings & Loan Ass'n v. SchultzAppellate Court of Illinois · 1966
  2. Rossiter v. SoperIllinois Supreme Court · 1943
  3. Detienne v. DetienneIllinois Supreme Court · 1920
  4. White v. VanPattenIllinois Supreme Court · 1917
  5. Starczewski v. TomanAppellate Court of Illinois · 1938

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