Kyle v. Wills
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Francis M. Wright, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for partition, assignment of ddwer and an accounting of rents and profits, brought by appellee, against appellant and others, at the March term, 1895, of the Champaign circuit court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Francis M. Wright, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for partition, assignment of ddwer and an accounting of rents and profits, brought by appellee, against appellant and others, at the March term, 1895, of the Champaign circuit court. The bill alleges that one Levi Crane (or Crayne, as the name is variously given in the record,) died intestate in March, 1879, leaving him surviving his widow, (now Elizabeth Kyle,) the appellant, and his children, seven in all, of whom appellee is one; that at the time of his death he was seized in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
That appellant received $400 from her father’s estate in her husband’s lifetime, seems to be uncontroverted, the appellee testifying to the same fact. Of this money she loaned $343.50 to her husband, the note and mortgage being dated January 18, 1869, and it seems that no interest was ever paid by him on this loan. The note and mortgage were made to her son Albion Crane, who, it is conceded, had no interest in the same, but merely held the same in trust for his mother. Within a year after Levi Crane’s death Albion filed his bill to foreclose this mortgage, to which the appellee and all the…
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