NEISSL v. HARTMAN

Gen. No. 63-O-3.

44 Ill. App.2d 412 (1963)

196 N.E.2d 528

Eleanor Virginia Neissl, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph P. Hartman, et al., the Unborn Children or Descendants of Children of Joseph P. Hartman and Mary Margaret O'Hallaron and the St. Louis Union Trust Company and Joseph P. Hartman, Trustees Under the Will of Joseph B. Hartman, Deceased, Defendants-Appellees. Diana Sheehan, et al., and the Unborn Children or Descendants of Children of Eleanor Virginia Neissl, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Rehearing denied December 30, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray & Stephens, of Centralia, for appellants.

John F. O'Connell and Walker & Williams, of East St. Louis, for appellees.


CULBERTSON, P.J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of St. Clair County, construing a certain portion of a will. The will provided in part that the testator's children are given the power to appoint a portion of the trust created by the will, to their "own child or children, or descendants of child or children." The Court below entered a decree construing the words "child or children" as used in the...

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