Gum v. Reep
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Menard county; the Hon. Guy R. Williams, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
This is an appeal from a decree entered in a will contest case in which the will was set aside as not being the act and deed of the testatrix, Anna B. Reep, who died February 9, 1915, leaving the instrument contested purporting to be her last will and testament executed February 24, 1914.
The testatrix left surviving her a husband, Eli Reep; also her children, Nannie B. Gum, Thomas P. Reep, Martha A. Clark, Alice Maud Batterton, Mary A. Gaddie, Ethel C. Gum and Edward L. Reep; also Ely Reep, her granddaughter, the only child of a deceased son. Stripped of unnecessary verbiage, the will, after…
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