Goelz v. Goelz

In 1880 William Goelz, the appellee, was residing with his wife, Josephine Goelz, at Bowmanville, in Cook county, Illinois. He was a German by birth and a physician by profession, and had accumulated some property. He was at that time sixty-one years of age, aud his wife was several years older. They had three living children, —William Goelz, Jr., about thirty-three years old, Carl August Goelz, a few years younger, and a daughter, Dorothea F. Goelz, since intermarried with one August Gross-man. William Goelz, Jr., and Carl August Goelz, were married men, Louisa Goelz being the wife of the…