Bowman v. Austin

Appellant, Ida C. Bowman, filed her complaint in the circuit court of McLean county against Minnie A. Austin, Edward Oscar Austin, Byrl Austin, Lenora C. Kraft and Theodore E. Kraft, for a construction of the will of Oscar W. Kraft, deceased, and for a partition of the life-estate interest held by appellant, Ida C. Bowman, and appellee, Minnie A. Austin.

Oscar W. Kraft died testate July 1, 1921, leaving his widow, Alice C. Kraft, who died in 1943, and Ida C. Bowman, Minnie A. Austin, Lenora C. Kraft and Theodore E. Kraft as his only children. Ida C. Bowman, the appellant, is fifty-five years…