Cheney v. Roodhouse
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Greene county; the Hon. Geoege W. Hebdman, Judge, presiding. Peter Roodhouse died intestate on June 9, 1879, in Greene county, Illinois, leaving him surviving, Harriet Roodhouse, his widow, and two sons, Harry W. Roodhouse (appellee herein) and Benjamin T. Roodhouse, as his only heirs-at-law.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Greene county; the Hon. Geoege W. Hebdman, Judge, presiding. Peter Roodhouse died intestate on June 9, 1879, in Greene county, Illinois, leaving him surviving, Harriet Roodhouse, his widow, and two sons, Harry W. Roodhouse (appellee herein) and Benjamin T. Roodhouse, as his only heirs-at-law. The first named son was the issue of a former marriage, and was twenty-one years of age, and the other son was the issue of his last marriage, and was about six years old. The intestate left…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
Two preliminary questions are raised by appellee. It is insisted that the second, fourth and thirteenth assignments of error upon the record of the Appellate Court involve questions to which the attention of that court was not called, and that therefore they can not he here considered. This claim is not well founded. The questions raised by said assignments were elaborately argued in the briefs submitted in that court, and the substance of the alleged errors was fully covered by ¡the second, seventh and eighth errors there assigned, and the changes here made in the phraseology of the…
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