People ex rel. Wells v. Lanham

Appellants petitioned the County Court for a citation against appellee, as executor of Thomas P. Lanham, deceased, to compel him as such executor to sell the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter, section 33, town 21 north, range west, in Vermilion county, to pay the debts of the deceased. The petition discloses the fact that Thompson P. Lanham died August .18,1876, and that his will was thereafter duly probated, and that appellee was appointed and qualified as executor, and that the real estate above described was given to his wife fot and during her life, in lieu of dower in the real…