Brownback v. Keister
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macon county; the Hon. Solon Philbrick, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Macon county sustaining a demurrer interposed by appellees to appellant’s bill, denying appellant’s motion for leave to file a supplemental bill and dismissing the bill for want of equity.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macon county; the Hon. Solon Philbrick, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Macon county sustaining a demurrer interposed by appellees to appellant’s bill, denying appellant’s motion for leave to file a supplemental bill and dismissing the bill for want of equity. It appears from the bill that on November 5, 1891, one Peter Keister died, seized in fee of the real estate involved in this suit; that he left a will, which was probated in Macon county, the fifth item of which was as follows: “I give, devise and bequeath to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
By the terms of the fifth item of the will of Peter Keister a particular estate was carved out of the fee, to continue until the death of Susan Keister and Julius Keister, and the death or re-marriage of Matilda Keister, and the arrival at legal age of all the grandchildren of the testator named in the will. .Upon the happening of these contingencies the particular estate was to determine, and the remainder to go to such of the grandchildren, being children of Julius Keister and Matilda Keister, as should be then living and the descendants of such as should be then dead, share and share…
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