Williams v. Williams
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Cburt of Fulton county; the Hon. John A. Gray, Judge, presiding. This is a bill for partition, filed on April 12, 1899, by the appellant against thé appellees, brothers and sisters of the appellant, and children of Gebrge C. Williams, deceased, and the executors of the will of said George C. Williams, deceased, praying for the partition of seventy-eight acres of land in Fulton county, alleged to be the residuary estate of said George C. Williams,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Cburt of Fulton county; the Hon. John A. Gray, Judge, presiding. This is a bill for partition, filed on April 12, 1899, by the appellant against thé appellees, brothers and sisters of the appellant, and children of Gebrge C. Williams, deceased, and the executors of the will of said George C. Williams, deceased, praying for the partition of seventy-eight acres of land in Fulton county, alleged to be the residuary estate of said George C. Williams, deceased, who was a widower at the time of his death. The bill alleges, that George C. Williams died testate on January…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
Two questions are presented for our consideration by the record in this case: First, whether by the first clause of the will of the deceased, George C. Williams, appellant took the lands, described in the answer and the cross-bill as containing forty-one acres more or less; and, second, whether the legacies mentioned in the will were thereby made a charge upon either or both of the tracts of land described, the one as containing seventy-eight acres' more or less, and the other as containing forty-one acres more or less.
First—By the first clause of the will the testator gives and bequeaths to…
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