Young v. Harkleroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Benjamin E. Burroughs, Judge, presiding. This is a bill by William Harkleroad and others to construe the will of his father, Isaac Harkleroad, deceased, late of Madison county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Benjamin E. Burroughs, Judge, presiding. This is a bill by William Harkleroad and others to construe the will of his father, Isaac Harkleroad, deceased, late of Madison county. The testator died leaving a widow, William and Isaac Harkleroad, his sons, Florence Maud Harkleroad, a daughter, Fred B. Kinder, (the only child of his grand-daughter, Annie B. Kinder, only daughter of a fourth child of the testator, who was the wife of George Young at the time of her death,) and Ida B. Anderson, (only child of a fifth child of the testator,)…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
Counsel for George Young insist that the words, “and in case of the death of either one then their portion to descend and belong to the heirs of the other persons mentioned in this section, in equal portions,” are meaningless and inoperative, and that when Annie B. Young died without any heirs -of her body, as contemplated by the testator, the portion of the land devised to her for life descended to the heirs general of the testator as intestate property, and that as Mrs. Young was one of those heirs, and had willed her estate to her husband, George Young, he, by virtue of the descent to his…
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