Grand Tower Mining, Manufacturing & Transportation Co. v. Gill

When this ease was before us at a former term, (see 92 Ill. 249,) we held that the clause in the will of James Gill directing sixty acres of his home place, known as the “oven farm, ” or the “devil’s oven, ” to be laid out into town lots, without locating the same, or fixing the dimensions of the lots, or appointing any one to divide the land and lay out the lots, was void for uncertainty, and that such sixty acres being excepted from the devise of the home farm, descended to the testator’s heirs at law as intestate estate. The balance of the farm having been devised to his two sons, George…