Brenneman v. Dillon

Moses Dillon died intestate January 11, 1916, in New York City, leaving a widow, Metta F. H. Dillon, and as his only heirs four children, Mary D. Brenneman, Margaret Grimes, Alice D. Overson and Joseph G. Dillon, and also a grandson, Moses G. Dillon, only child of a deceased son. Dillon had resided and been engaged in business in Sterling, Illinois, many years, and from 1869 had been the principal stockholder in and president of the Moses Dillon Company, a corporation, which dealt in coal, grain, lumber and building materials and did a large business. A few years before his death Dillon and…