Murphy v. Murphy
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit,—Trial in the Circuit Court of Vermilion County; the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Judgment for defendant on demurrer; appeal by plaintiff. Heard in this court at the May term, 1899.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Wright
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellants sued appellee at law in an action of assumpsit, and it is averred in the declaration, in substance, that Jeremiah Murphy, the father of all the parties, by his last will, devised all his property, both real and personal, to his wife, Mary Murphy, for life, and at her death one-fourth part of his lands to the appellee, Palmer Murphy, and three-fourths of such lands to the appellants and appellee in equal parts, which will was duly probated in Vermilion county, January 6,1897. Mary Murphy, widow, died March 11,1898.…
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