Brown v. Riggin
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by James H. Biggin, an insane person, by his next friend, Ignatius Biggin, to the September term, 1875, against Luther Brown and Bobert Allyn, executors of the last will and testament of Elizabeth M. Biggin, impleaded with Edward B. Biggin and others, to contest the validity of the will and testament and three several codicils thereto.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by James H. Biggin, an insane person, by his next friend, Ignatius Biggin, to the September term, 1875, against Luther Brown and Bobert Allyn, executors of the last will and testament of Elizabeth M. Biggin, impleaded with Edward B. Biggin and others, to contest the validity of the will and testament and three several codicils thereto. Several persons were made parties defendant as legatees, but on some process was not served, and as to them the bill was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dickey
Testatrix died in July, 1875, being about sixty-nine years of age and a widow, leaving as her heirs at law the insane son' in whose behalf the bill is filed, then in an asylum, and a grandson, who is made defendant, but against whom no decree has been taken.
It appears, from, the evidence, that the deceased was an intelligent and cultivated woman, in apparent good health, being strong and robust, though of nervous temperament, with some tendency, as one of the witnesses says, to congestion of the brain ; but she is generally spoken of as a woman of gifted and brilliant mind, and in vigorous…
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