Saeger v. Bode
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Monroe county; the Hon. William Hartzell, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed by the defendants in error, William Bode and Frederick Jobusch, on August 24, 1898, for the partition of 60.04 acres of land in Monroe county, alleging that the complainants are owners of an undivided one-third part of the land, and making defendants thereto the plaintiff in error, Mary Saeger, and her brother, William Saeger, as the -owners of the other…
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Monroe county; the Hon. William Hartzell, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed by the defendants in error, William Bode and Frederick Jobusch, on August 24, 1898, for the partition of 60.04 acres of land in Monroe county, alleging that the complainants are owners of an undivided one-third part of the land, and making defendants thereto the plaintiff in error, Mary Saeger, and her brother, William Saeger, as the -owners of the other undivided two-thirds thereof, and, also, making defendants thereto certain of the defendants in error, holders of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The material question in this case arises out of the construction to be given to the ninth and tenth clauses of the will of Moritz Saeger, deceased, and is whether his widow, Charlotte Saeger, took a fee simple title to the premises described in the bill, or whether her interest in said premises under the will was merely a life estate with power of disposition during her life. Though the bill is inartistically drawn and somewhat indefinite in its terms, we infer from its allegations, that the land described therein is the same land, as that referred to in the ninth clause of the will as the…
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