Keith v. Miller
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of McDonough county; the Hon. Jefferson Orr, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, filed September 1, 1893, in the circuit court of McDonough county, by Charlotte Miller, Mary Jane Wolf, Robert N. Tyner and Elijah T. Wolf, against Joseph A. Keith, claiming the west half of the north-east quarter of section 7, township 7, range 1, in McDonough county, Illinois, devised to them under the following will of Martha A. Keith, the wife of Joseph…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of McDonough county; the Hon. Jefferson Orr, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, filed September 1, 1893, in the circuit court of McDonough county, by Charlotte Miller, Mary Jane Wolf, Robert N. Tyner and Elijah T. Wolf, against Joseph A. Keith, claiming the west half of the north-east quarter of section 7, township 7, range 1, in McDonough county, Illinois, devised to them under the following will of Martha A. Keith, the wife of Joseph A. Keith: “First—I give, bequeath and dispose of my property as follows, viz.: My real estate, consisting of a certain…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
It is contended in the argument by appellees that the facts establish a resulting trust as to the land in controversy. It does not appear by a preponderance of the evidence that when the property in controversy was purchased by Keith and the conveyance made to him the consideration was paid with the money of his wife. Keith swears he bought all the land with his own money; that he had $600 when he came to Illinois with his wife, in 1850, which he had earned farming and in the car-pen ter business; that he bought land with this money, which land he afterwards sold and bought the land in…
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