Dustin v. Brown
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Logan county; the Hon. T. M. Harris, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
This is a partition suit brought by appellants against appellees, seeking partition of certain lands in Logan county and for other relief. By clause 2 of the will of Dorrel F. Wright he devised to his daughter, Mary E. Wright, (now Dustin,) a life interest in an undivided one-half of a tract of land containing 1100 acres and referred to as the home farm, under the following condition: “and after her death to her children and their descendants forever.” By the fourth clause of the will Mary was devised an undivided one-half in another tract in fee. The other undivided one-half in these lands…
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