Legal Opinion

Tucker v. Cole

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided November 8, 1897PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips

This is a bill filed by appellees to set aside the will of Mary L. Cole, their mother, to which their sister, the appellant, and others, were made defendants. The bill charges the testator with being mentally unsound to such an extent as to incapacitate her from making a will, and also charges the will was induced and procured to be made by the undue influence of the appellant. The trial was had before a jury, who found from oral evidence that the paper purporting to be the last will and testament of Mary L. Cole was not her last will and testament, and specially found that the same was…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Illinois Central Railroad v. O'KeefeIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  2. Fanning v. RussellIllinois Supreme Court · 1880

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Johnson v. FarrellIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
  2. Mayville v. FrenchIllinois Supreme Court · 1910
  3. Greenwell v. HessIllinois Supreme Court · 1921
  4. Henline v. BradyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903

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