Fletcher v. Shepherd
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Francis M. Wright, Judge, presiding. This is a bill for the partition of forty acres of land, alleged to have been owned by one George W. Whipple at the time of his death, and was filed at the March term, 1896, of the circuit court of Champaign county by the appellant, Jane F. Fletcher, a daughter of the said George W. Whipple, against the appellees, Minnie B. Shepherd and George Whipple, a daughter and son of the…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Francis M. Wright, Judge, presiding. This is a bill for the partition of forty acres of land, alleged to have been owned by one George W. Whipple at the time of his death, and was filed at the March term, 1896, of the circuit court of Champaign county by the appellant, Jane F. Fletcher, a daughter of the said George W. Whipple, against the appellees, Minnie B. Shepherd and George Whipple, a daughter and son of the said deceased, and appellee, Emily Whipple, his widow. Answer was filed to the bill, and replication was filed to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
George W. Whipple died intestate on June 12, 1895, leaving him surviving his widow, the appellee Emily Whipple, and three children as his only heirs-at-law, to-wit, his daughter, the appellant Jane F. Fletcher, his daughter, the appellee Minnie B. Shepherd, and his son, the appellee George Whipple. In his lifetime he was the owner in fee of the forty acres of land involved in this controversy, but whether he was the owner thereof at the time of his decease is a disputed question in the case, and is the main, if not the only question, to be determined in order to settle the issues made by the…
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