Gullett v. Farley
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. JST. W. Green, Judge, presiding. Eliza Gullett exhibited her bill in chancery in the circuit court of Woodford county on the 25th day of June, 1894, showing that she and one Robert Gullett were tenants in common and owners in equal moieties of the southeast quarter of section 9, township 27, north, range 1, west of the third principal meridian, in Tazewell county; that they derived title through James Gullett, who…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. JST. W. Green, Judge, presiding. Eliza Gullett exhibited her bill in chancery in the circuit court of Woodford county on the 25th day of June, 1894, showing that she and one Robert Gullett were tenants in common and owners in equal moieties of the southeast quarter of section 9, township 27, north, range 1, west of the third principal meridian, in Tazewell county; that they derived title through James Gullett, who died, on the 15th day of December, 1893, testate and without issue, but leaving his widow, Eliza Gullett, the complainant…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
The questions presented by the record are: First, did Eliza Gullett, by the renunciation filed by her ,in the county court of Tazewell county at the March term, 1894, simply take dower in the premises in controversy and one-half of the personal estate of which James Gullett died possessed after the payment of debts, under sections 10 and 11 of chapter 41 of the Revised Statutes, or did she take, under such renunciation, one-half of the real estate in fee simple of which James Gullett died seized, under section 12 of that chapter; and second, did Eliza Gullett, by exhibiting her bill in the…
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