Goff v. Pensenhafer
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding. The original bill in this case was filed on December 5, 1898, and the amended bill on May 10, 1899, by Mary Goff and David Golf, her husband.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding. The original bill in this case was filed on December 5, 1898, and the amended bill on May 10, 1899, by Mary Goff and David Golf, her husband. The amended bill alleges that one John G. Pensenhafer, late of Sangamon county, now deceased, was, in his lifetime and when he died, seized of certain lands in Sangamon county amounting to about four hundred and ninety acres, there being embraced therein four tracts of eighty acres each, one tract of one hundred and sixty acres and one tract of ten…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First—By the second clause of the will of John G. Pensenhafer he willed and bequeathed to his three children “eighty acres of land each which I may hereafter select or elect for each to have out of my land;” and, by the third clause thereof, he provided as follows: “After the above legacies or bequests are selected to each of said heirs, then the remainder of my real estate I hereby bequeath to Fredreka Pensenhafer, George Pensenhafer, and Rebecca Pensenhafer, and my wife, Marj^ Pensenhafer, to be divided equally between them, my wife retaining the houses and out-houses thereon, and at her…
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