Legal Opinion

Gum v. Reep

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 24, 1916PublishedCited by 16 opinions

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…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Weston v. TeufelIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
  2. Purdy v. HallIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
  3. Keyes v. KimmelIllinois Supreme Court · 1900
  4. Leonard v. BurtleIllinois Supreme Court · 1907

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Belfield v. CoopIllinois Supreme Court · 1956
  2. Franciscan Sisters Health Care Corp. v. DeanIllinois Supreme Court · 1983
  3. Mitchell v. Van ScoykIllinois Supreme Court · 1953
  4. Williams v. CrickmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1980
  5. Tidholm v. TidholmIllinois Supreme Court · 1945

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