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TRABUE v. GILLHAM

No. 31805.

408 Ill. 508 (1951)

97 N.E.2d 341

MILDRED TRABUE et al., Appellees, v. LUTHER GILLHAM et al. — (MILDRED CHAPPELL et al., Appellants.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied March 20, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G.R. SCHWARZ, and DUHADWAY & SUDDES, both of Jerseyville, (JOHN S. SELF, and CLAUDE J. DAVIS, of counsel,) for appellants.

JACOBY, PATTON & MANNS, of Alton, (JOHN F. McGINNIS, and FRANK L. MANNS, of counsel,) for appellees.

Decree affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE CRAMPTON delivered the opinion of the court:

Ephraim S. Chappell died in 1893, leaving his five children surviving. Under the second clause of his will he devised certain farm property to his son John for life and then provided that "at the death of the said John Frederick Chappell, I devise the real estate herein given him for life, to his children and the descendants of any deceased child

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