Severy v. McDougall
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. Prank L. Hooper and Hon. Dorrance Dibell, Judges, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1914.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
John McDougall died intestate June 9, 1877, the owner of eighty acres of farm land, his homestead, incumbered by a mortgage debt of $1,600 bearing ten per cent, interest. He left surviving his widow, Mary McDougall, and their five children, three girls and two hoys, viz.: Elizabeth, Emma, Margaret and William J. and Charles G. There were some small debts and some personal property. There was no administration of his personal estate, and neither homestead nor dower was set off to the widow.
The family lived in the house on this land…
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