Stephens v. Collison
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Ford county; the Hon. Colostin D. Myers, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Duncan
Josephus Martin died testate January 6, 1909, and left surviving him his widow, Hannah J. Martin, his children, Emma B. Collison, Mary E. Collison, Josephus W. Martin and Nancy Stephens, and his grandchildren, Effie Ireland, Walter Karr, Edna Duncan and Charles Karr, only children of a deceased daughter, as his only heirs-at-law. Said Nancy Stephens hied a bill in chancery in-the circuit court of Ford county to set aside a certain agreement and lease made between her and the executors of her father’s will and other heirs of her father, and to contest the will of said Josephus Martin, which…
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- Drake v. CraneSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895
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