Horn v. Horn

Bertha Horn, one of the defendants in-error, second wife and widow of Gustav A. Horn, filed her bill in the circuit court of St. Clair county asking to have her homestead set off and her dower assigned in certain property in East St. Louis which she alleged her husband owned in fee simple at the time of his death, on July 15, 1906. Among the pieces of property in which she claimed dower was lot 12, in block 175, of the town (now city) of East St. Louis. Among the defendants to the bill were the plaintiffs in error, five of the children and heirs-at-law' of Emilie Horn, the first wife, and…