Dean v. Northern Trust Co.

Appellant filed the bill in this case in the superior court of Cook county to construe the will of John E. Dean, who died testate in November, 1908, leaving surviving him a widow, one son, Morris Rowland Dean, and four daughters, his only children and heirs-at-law. The first paragraph of the will directed the payment of the testator’s funeral expenses, and $25,000 to his widow under an ante-nuptial contract. The second paragraph disposed of the testator’s jewelry, silverware and household effects to his children. The third made a bequest to the testator’s nephew of any mortgages he might hold…