Brown v. Peters

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE ALLOY

delivered the opinion of the court:

J. L. Brown, executor of the last will and testament of Zathoe Hauter, appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Bureau County admitting a certain document to probate as the second codicil to the last wiU and testament of the decedent. As noted in the opinion later, the second codicil purports to make a specific devise of the residence of decedent and a bequest of the household goods in the residence at the time of the death of the decedent. Such property would otherwise be disposed of by executor’s sale and the proceeds would…