Estate of Shirley

THOMPSON (IRA F.), J.

This is an appeal from a decree of partial distribution. The facts are as follows: The decedent executed his last will and testament on August 15, 1914, by which he declared his property to be his separate estate, that “no other person or persons have any interest therein except my only son and only daughter” and that he executed the instrument “for the sole purpose of having” his “property equally divided between” his “son, Lafayette • Shirley, a resident of Rockford, Illinois, and” his “married daughter, Jessie C. Lake, of Rockford, Illinois, and Redondo Beach,…