Phillippe v. Clevenger

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Champaign county, entered in a suit for the partition of certain lands of which John Phillippe, Jr., died seized, commenced by the appellants, against the appellee, in so far as it disposes of the title to the west half of the south-west quarter of section 5, township 20, north, range 8, east of the third principal meridian, Champaign county, Illinois.

It appears from the record that in and by the fourth paragraph of his will, which bore date September 15, 1877, John Phillippe, Jr., devised to Nettie F. Clevenger, his daughter, in fee…