Wright v. Simpson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appear from the Circuit Court of McDonough county; the Hon. John A. Gray, Judge, presiding-. This is a petition, filed on May 9,1901, in the county court of McDonough county by the appellee, Ida Simpson, against the appellants Frances A. Wright, Willis P. Wright, Carley E. Wright, Angie R. Hickman, and Sadie B. Wright, praying that an order, entered by that court on May 1, 1900, probating the last will and testament of Thomas R. Wright, deceased, be set aside; and that a…
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Appear from the Circuit Court of McDonough county; the Hon. John A. Gray, Judge, presiding-. This is a petition, filed on May 9,1901, in the county court of McDonough county by the appellee, Ida Simpson, against the appellants Frances A. Wright, Willis P. Wright, Carley E. Wright, Angie R. Hickman, and Sadie B. Wright, praying that an order, entered by that court on May 1, 1900, probating the last will and testament of Thomas R. Wright, deceased, be set aside; and that a time and place might be fixed when and where the question of the probate of said will might be heard; and that due notice…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
The petition, filed in this case on May 9, 1901, for the purpose of setting aside the probate of the will of Thomas R. Wright, deceased, was specially demurred to, upon the alleged ground that the county court had no jurisdiction to entertain such petition, or to set aside the probate of the will, but was only clothed with jurisdiction to hear and determine the application for probate; and that the only way to avoid the effect of the order of the probate court, entered on May 1, 1900, admitting the will to probate, was to pursue the remedies, prescribed by the statute for that purpose; that…
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