Brainard v. Brainard
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henderson county; the Hon. Harry M. Waggoner, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Cooke
Charles Henry Brainard died at his home in Henderson county on March 25, 1912, leaving. him surviving Minerva R. Brainard, his widow, and Charles Ashael Brainard, Elmira E. Epperly and William Henry Brainard, his children, as his only heirs-at-law. Afterwards an instrument was admitted to probate by the county court of Henderson county as and for his last will and testament. By this will, which was dated December 1, 1911, the testator devised to his wife, for and during her natural life, a lot in the village of Kirkwood, in Warren county, as a homestead, and directed that there be set off to…
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