Woman's Union Missionary Society of America v. Mead
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M.'F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Phebe L. Smith died December 24,1885. She left surviving as her only heirs, James Ogden, an uncle on her mother’s side, and Benjamin Franklin Smith, an uncle on her father’s side. Subsequently James Ogden died, leaving a will, by which George 0. Mead was made executor and sole residuary legatee.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M.'F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Phebe L. Smith died December 24,1885. She left surviving as her only heirs, James Ogden, an uncle on her mother’s side, and Benjamin Franklin Smith, an uncle on her father’s side. Subsequently James Ogden died, leaving a will, by which George 0. Mead was made executor and sole residuary legatee. At the time of filing the bill in this cause, George 0. Mead and Benjamin Franklin Smith represented, and they now represent, all the inheritable interests, if. any, in the estate of Phebe L. Smith. January 24,1884,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
It would be impossible to consider all the questions raised on this record, much less to notice all the points made in the various arguments filed, within the reasonable limit of an opinion. Many of them, in the view we take of the case, are of no importance. We shall give attention only to those which we regard as controlling questions in the case. The first of these is, does the will of Miss Smith dispose of all of the property, real and personal, owned by her at the time of her death, or did she, as to a part of that property, die intestate.
By the death of Mrs. Turner after the execution…
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