Heylin v. Woods

Mr. Presiding Justice Shurtleff

delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question in this case is whether a legacy given to George Palmerton, one of the appellees, under the will of John C. Hoxworth, deceased, has abated. The facts necessary to a proper understanding of the question are few and not complicated.

John C. Hoxworth, a resident of Rapatee, Knox county, Illinois, made his last will on the 8th day of January, 1913, by the first paragraph of which he directed his executrix to pay his debts and funeral expenses. By the second paragraph he gave to his wife, Alice Hoxworth, all the…