ROBERTSON v. EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSP.

No. 37449.

28 Ill.2d 483 (1963)

192 N.E.2d 895

W.A. ROBERTSON, Successor in Trust, et al., Appellees, v. EASTERN LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL et al. — (Western Province, Community of St. Mary, Appellant.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed September 27, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ANDREWS & PETERSON, of Rockford, (WILLIAM W. PETERSON and JAMES C. SPELMAN, of counsel,) for appellant.

THOMAS, DAVIS & KOSTANTACOS, GUYER AND ENICHEN, BROWN, CONNOLLY AND PADDOCK, and HYER, GILL AND BROWN, all of Rockford, (CHARLES H. DAVIS, STANLEY H. GUYER, ROBERT OLIVER, and STANTON E. HYER, of counsel,) for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves the construction of a will executed in 1882. The testatrix, Frances A. Horsman, died in 1889, leaving as her heirs at law a daughter, Mary Alice Underwood, and a granddaughter, Belle Ogden. When the will was executed and when the testatrix died Mary Alice Underwood was married and the mother of a son, John C. Underwood. Belle C. Ogden, the daughter of a deceased...

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