Benson v. Gerhart

Mr. Presiding Justice Boggs

delivered the opinion of the court.

Rosa Pinkstaff, of Lawrence county, died testate on October 11, 1921, seized of some 406 acres of land in said county, valued at $39,975, and of personal estate valued at $9,738.18. The second and third clauses of her will are as follows:

“Second. I will devise and bequeath to Ida Norton $500 in cash and to her and her heirs I devise and bequeath Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of section twenty-four, town five, range eleven west, Crawford county, Illinois.

ieThird. I will devise and bequeath to John R. Pink-staff $300 in…