Tyler v. Tyler
Illinois Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM HANCOCK. Erancina B. Tyler filed her bill in chancery in the Circuit Court of Hancock county, against Stephen H. Tyler, Hannah Tyler, Charles C. Tyler, and John H. Tyler, in which she alleged that she is the widow of Stephen H. Tyler, Jr., of said county ; that Tyler died on the 25th of January, 1855, in said county ; that said Tyler was born in Connecticut and resided there until 1835, when he removed to Illinois.
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APPEAL PROM HANCOCK. Erancina B. Tyler filed her bill in chancery in the Circuit Court of Hancock county, against Stephen H. Tyler, Hannah Tyler, Charles C. Tyler, and John H. Tyler, in which she alleged that she is the widow of Stephen H. Tyler, Jr., of said county ; that Tyler died on the 25th of January, 1855, in said county ; that said Tyler was born in Connecticut and resided there until 1835, when he removed to Illinois. That complainant and said Stephen were married in Illinois on the 15th day of December, 1842, and that they lived together as man and wife until Tyler’s death; that no…
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
The case shows, that Stephen H. Tyler and the complainant intermarried in this State, in 1842, and here lived as husband and wife until his death in 1855 ;„that he died, never having had a child, and leaving a considerable estate, real and personal, in this State ; and that the defendants claim his estate under a will executed in the State of Connecticut, where Tyler then lived, in 1834; which will devises his entire estate to his blood relatives.
The material question is, whether this will, by the change of condition of the deceased, is revoked.
It is essential to a valid will, that it be the…
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