Van Matre v. Sankey
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon, M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Mary F. VanMatre filed her bill in chancery in the Cook county circuit court, alleging that she and others named in the bill, including Caroline C. Sankey, were the heirs-at-law of Samuel Sankey, who died intestate in November, 1886, without issue or widow surviving him, and seized of certain lots and lands in said county, of which partition was sought among said alleged collateral heirs of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon, M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. Mary F. VanMatre filed her bill in chancery in the Cook county circuit court, alleging that she and others named in the bill, including Caroline C. Sankey, were the heirs-at-law of Samuel Sankey, who died intestate in November, 1886, without issue or widow surviving him, and seized of certain lots and lands in said county, of which partition was sought among said alleged collateral heirs of said decedent. The bill also set up that appellant Henry L. G-los and others claimed some interest in certain of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shops
The question presented by the appeal of Mary F. VanMatre is, whether there was a legal adoption of Caroline C. Sankey by Samuel Sankey, in his lifetime, in Pennsylvania, by which, jinder the laws of that State, she became his heir-at-law. It is insisted that there was no legal adoption, for the reason that the court was without jurisdiction to enter the decree-*first, because said Samuel Sankey was not, at the time, a resident of the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, where the same was entered, within the contemplation and meaning of the statute of that State; and second, that it…
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