Hitchcock v. Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church

Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell

delivered the opinion of the court.

Mrs. Bhebe Bose, a resident of Dunlap, in Beoria county, died a widow and without descendants, leaving a will which was admitted to probate. The will was in her own handwriting. She had apparently copied it, evidently with changes, from a previous will drawn by some other person. Her executor filed a bill and an amended and supplemental bill, hereinafter called the bill, to construe the 22nd and 23rd clauses thereof, which were as follows:

“Twenty second. It is my will after what I have named be satisfied what left be equally…