Deadman v. Yantis
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby county; the Hon. Truman E. Ames, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a decree of the Shelby county circuit court dismissing, for want of equity, a bill for partition filed by Elzina Deadman against Cordelia Yantis and others. Mary J. Dixon, who was a defendant in the original bill, was by amendment made complainant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby county; the Hon. Truman E. Ames, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a decree of the Shelby county circuit court dismissing, for want of equity, a bill for partition filed by Elzina Deadman against Cordelia Yantis and others. Mary J. Dixon, who was a defendant in the original bill, was by amendment made complainant. John W. Dixon, another defendant, filed an answer confessing the material allegations in the bill, and subsequently filed a cross-bill setting up certain facts and praying relief, which will be more fully stated hereinafter. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Vickers
Under the third clause of the will of William Claridge there can be no doubt that the testator intended that his wife, Elizabeth M. Claridge, should have the two hundred acres of land in controversy during her natural life, and that his daughter, Mary J. Dixon, and her children, John W. and Elzina, and the survivors of them, should have a vested fee simple title in remainder, subject only to the life estate of the widow. The title of the tenants in fee being vested upon the death of .the testator, it became subject to the' laws of conveyance, partition and sale on execution for the debts of…
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