Kendall v. Taylor

This was a bill filed in the circuit court of Menard county by the appellants, Edwin Elmer Kendall and Albert Leslie "Kendall, for a partition of about 238 acres of land in that county. After issues were joined and a hearing had the court ordered that the partition be made but determined the interests of appellants in the land to be different from that prayed for by them. From this decree they have appealed to this court.

■ The decision in this case hinges upon the construction to be given to the will of Francis M. Kendall, which, so far as it bears on the issues here, reads as follows:

“I…