Sturgis v. Ewing
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a bill in chancery, filed by George W. Ewing against Esther Ewing, William G. Ewing, Jr., Mary L. Guthrie and her husband Charles W. Guthrie, Lavinia A. Bond and her husband Charles D. Bond, Catharine E. Ewing, Sophia C. Noel and her husband Smallwood ¡Noel, Louisa Sturgis and her husband Charles E. Sturgis, William Sturgis, Susan Hood, William A. Ewing, and George W. Ewing, Jr., setting forth that the complainant and one William G. Ewing, deceased, were, in the…
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This was a bill in chancery, filed by George W. Ewing against Esther Ewing, William G. Ewing, Jr., Mary L. Guthrie and her husband Charles W. Guthrie, Lavinia A. Bond and her husband Charles D. Bond, Catharine E. Ewing, Sophia C. Noel and her husband Smallwood ¡Noel, Louisa Sturgis and her husband Charles E. Sturgis, William Sturgis, Susan Hood, William A. Ewing, and George W. Ewing, Jr., setting forth that the complainant and one William G. Ewing, deceased, were, in the lifetime of said William G. Ewing, seized in fee as tenants in common of certain lands and lots in Coolc county; that as…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.
I shall first refer to the case of Tyson v. Postlethwaite, 13 Ill. R. 727, which, it is supposed by the plaintiffs in error, is decisive of this case. That was a case of intestacy, and the question there considered was within the 15th section of the dower act, which was first incorporated into our statutes in the revision of 1845, repealed by implication the forty-sixth section of the statute of wills, which was introduced into our law in 1829, and was continued in the revision of 1845. After quoting this last section, or the part of it involved, and commenting upon its meaning, the question…
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