Legal Opinion
Duffield v. Duffield
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided April 22, 1915PublishedCited by 34 opinions
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike county; the Hon. Albert Akers, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Cartwright
James M. Duffield owned lands in Pike county and had three sons,—Henry T. Duffield, John J. Duffield and William F. Duffield. On March 28, 1894, he divided the lands among his sons and made deeds to them severally, which were identical except as to the name of the grantee and the description of the lands, conveying 80 acres to Henry. T. Duffield, 120 acres to John J. Duffield and the same number of acres to William F. Duffield. The deed to Henry T. Duffield was as follows:
“This indenture, made this 28th day of March, A. D. 1894, between James M. Duffield, (a widower,) of the county of Pike…
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