Pillsbury v. Bruns

George Gardner, a bachelor eighty-three years old, was the owner of his home farm of ninety-six acres and another eighty-acre tract of land, both situated in Sangamon county. He executed a deed while on his death-bed, on June 14, 1919, conveying the ninety-six acres to George Bruns and Ruth Bruns, his wife. A week later he died intestate. His heirs were his four sisters, three of whom died within a year, and the survivor, together with the heirs of the deceased sisters, filed a bill for the partition of the ninety-six acres as well as the eighty acres, alleging that at the time of the…