Ward v. Ward
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery county; the Hon. J. Fouke, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scholfield
This appeal brings before us for review the decree of the circuit court of Montgomery county dismissing the bill in a suit therein, wherein Amanda A. Ward, widow of Thomas B„ Ward, deceased, is complainant, and William B. Ward, Thomas J. Ward and Sarah Sanders are defendants, praying that a trust be decreed in favor of the complainant in a certain 26§ acres of land, and that homestead be set off and dower assigned to her in other lands whereof Thomas B. Ward died seized.
The evidence utterly fails to establish a trust in the 26f-acres of land, as alleged in the bill, and to show any other…
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