Langworthy v. Golden
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Bureau County; the lion. George W. Stipp, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtLacey, P. J.
This was a bill in equity filed by the appellee to enforce the payment of a specific legacy claimed to be due her under and by virtue of the will of her grandfather, Wm. Hunter, Sr. It is sought to establish a lien to the amount of the bequest on a certain eighty-acre tract of land owned by Wm. Hunter, Sr., in his lifetime, and of which he died seized.
Erastus B. Hunter, now deceased, was the father of appellee and the residuary legatee and devisee in the will of his father.
Frank Langworthy and J. T. Corbin are the present holders of the legal title to the land through mesne conveyances from…
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