Harris v. Lester
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. The opinion of the court gives a condensed statement of the essential facts involved in the case. The complainant appealed from the decree below. The defendants below were the parties claiming title under the executor’s sale.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scott
Subject to the payment of his debts, Stephen A. Douglas devised all his real estate, one-half to his wife, Adele Douglas, and the other half to his two sons, Eobert M. and Stephen A. Douglas. He nominated his wife and Daniel P. Ehodes as executors of his will, hut only the latter qualified and took upon himself the duties of the trust imposed. Such proceedings were subsequently had in the circuit court of Cook county, where the testator had resided, and where the lands are situated, on the petition of the executor, that he was authorized, by a decree of that court, to sell, and did, in…
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