Hill v. Sangamon Loan & Trust Co.

John D. Gillett, grandfather of appellant, died testate, seized of a large amount of real estate in Logan county, and left him surviving as his only heirs-at-law his eight children. By his last will and testament he devised to two of his daughters, Nina Lemira Gillett and Amarilla Tuttle Gillett, each an undivided one-half of certain business property in Lincoln, the real estate in question, to be used and enjoyed by each of them during her natural life with remainder in fee to her lineal descendants her surviving, and in the event of her having no child or children, power to appoint any…