Bates v. Gillett
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit- Court of Logan county; the Hon. George W. Herdman, Judge, presiding. This was a hill for partition, filed by William G. Bates, D. H. Harts and Robert Humphrey, in the Logan circuit court, April 12, 1887, against John D. Gillett and others.
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Appeal from the Circuit- Court of Logan county; the Hon. George W. Herdman, Judge, presiding. This was a hill for partition, filed by William G. Bates, D. H. Harts and Robert Humphrey, in the Logan circuit court, April 12, 1887, against John D. Gillett and others. The facts out of which this controversy arises, not sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court, are in substance as follows: In 1846, John Lorence, being possessed of a large estate in land, made and published his last will, under which both parties claim title. The material part of that will is as follows: “Subject to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice-Shops
delivered the opinion of the Court:
Complainants’ claim is, that the son of William G. and Sophronia G. Bates, who died in infancy, took, under the will of his grandfather, John Lorence, a one-fourth interest in the lands devised for life to his mother, and after her death, to her children and descendants, and that, upon the death of said child without brothers or sisters at the time of his death, said interest descended to his father and mother, in equal shares; that, under the law, said William G-. Bates had an estate by the curtesy initiate in the share descending to…
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