Legal Opinion

Wolf v. Bollinger

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1872PublishedCited by 41 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison County; the Hon. Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. The opinion sufficiently states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon

On the 2d day of February, 1868, Jacob Bizer duly executed his last will and testament, wherein Catharine Bollinger, the appellee, was made the devisee of a certain forty acres of land. A few weeks afterward, the testator sent for Frederick T. Krafft, the executor named in the will, and informed him that he wished to alter the will so that Christina Wolf, the appellant, should take the forty acres instead of Catharine Bollinger; and at his instance, Krafft cancelled the name of Catharine Bollinger in the will, by drawing lines through it with a pen, leaving the name still legible, and…

2Cited by41 opinions

  1. Selden v. Illinois Trust & Savings BankIllinois Supreme Court · 1909
  2. Williams v. CrickmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1980
  3. Hooks v. BrownSupreme Court of Georgia · 1906
  4. Kern v. KernIndiana Supreme Court · 1900
  5. Hartz v. SobelSupreme Court of Georgia · 1911

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