O'CONNELL v. GAFFNEY

No. 36462.

23 Ill.2d 611 (1962)

179 N.E.2d 647

TOM O'CONNELL, EXR., et al., Appellants. v. JAMES GAFFNEY et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed January 23, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

FLYNN AND FLYNN, of Jacksonville, for appellants.

BELLATTI, FAY & BELLATTI, of Jacksonville, for appellees.


Affirmed in part and reversed in part and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SOLFISBURG delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs appeal directly to this court from a decree of the circuit court of Morgan County entered in a will construction suit wherein a freehold is involved.

These are the material facts in the case which were stipulated by counsel:

The will of Owen Kiernan, which was duly probated, was executed in 1921, in the second clause of...

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