Galbraith v. Tracy
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henderson county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. The original bill herein was -filed by Paradine Galbraith, widow of Franklin Galbraith, deceased, and Marceilus Galbraith, Mary E. Sells, (nee Galbraith,) Thomas M. Galbraith, Edward M. Galbraith, James T. Galbraith, George F. Galbraith, Frederick Galbraith and Ralph Galbraith, children and' only heirs-at-law of said deceased.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henderson county; the Hon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. The original bill herein was -filed by Paradine Galbraith, widow of Franklin Galbraith, deceased, and Marceilus Galbraith, Mary E. Sells, (nee Galbraith,) Thomas M. Galbraith, Edward M. Galbraith, James T. Galbraith, George F. Galbraith, Frederick Galbraith and Ralph Galbraith, children and' only heirs-at-law of said deceased. The bill was for the assignment of homestead and dower to the widow, and for the partition among the heirs of some twenty-seven different tracts of land that are not now in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
For a number of years Jesse Kemp and John J. Kemp carried on the business of raising and dealing in live stock, in partnership. The stock, machinery, implements and other personal property employed in such business were partnership property. The 400 acres of land on which the business was conducted stood in their joint and joined names, and was presumably purchased for the purposes of the partnership business, and seems to have been used and regarded by them as partnership property. When John J. Kemp died, Jesse Kemp, the surviving partner, became a trustee in respect to the property and…
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