Bartmess v. Fuller
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Crawford county; the Hon. S. Z. Landes, Judge, presiding. Daniel Fuller died intestate on February 26, 1895, leaving no widow, but leaving, as his only heirs-at-law, five children, to-wit: two sons, Nelson R. Fuller and Torrence I. Fuller, and three daughters, Rebecca Chiddix, Emeline Bartmess and Lydia A. Shaw. Prior to his death he owned one hundred acres of laud in Crawford county.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Crawford county; the Hon. S. Z. Landes, Judge, presiding. Daniel Fuller died intestate on February 26, 1895, leaving no widow, but leaving, as his only heirs-at-law, five children, to-wit: two sons, Nelson R. Fuller and Torrence I. Fuller, and three daughters, Rebecca Chiddix, Emeline Bartmess and Lydia A. Shaw. Prior to his death he owned one hundred acres of laud in Crawford county. On February 22,1894, he executed a conveyance of an undivided one-fifth interest therein to his son, Nelson R. Fuller. On February 26, 1894, Nelson R. Fuller conveyed this…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The contention of the plaintiffs in error in this case, as set out in the cross-bill, is, that Torrence and Nelson Puller, by the deeds executed to them by their father in his lifetime, received each a one-fifth interest in the one hundred acres of land owned by their father, which they would have received as heirs in-case of the death of their father intestate without having made such deeds, in lieu of their respective shares as heirs in said premises, and under an agreement that they would release their interests in the remaining three-fifths thereof. The effect of the decree below was to…
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- Adams v. GillIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
- Long v. LongIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
- Wilkinson v. ThomasIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
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