McCoy v. Sheehy
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of DeWitt county; the Hon. W. G. Cochran, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
The county court of DeWitt county admitted to probate a paper purporting to be the last will and testament of Michael Sheehy., deceased.' Appellants took an appeal to the circuit court of said county, and that court also admitted the will to probate, and a further appeal has been prosecuted'to this court.
It appears from the evidence that Michael Sheehy had been suffering from disease for some time and was in an enfeebled condition; that on the 20th day of December, 1910, he was removed from his home in DeWitt county to St. Joseph’s Hospital at Bloomington, McLean county, where he died on the…
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