NIELSEN v. DUYVEJONCK

Gen. No. 67-63.

94 Ill. App.2d 224 (1968)

236 N.E.2d 743

Clyde Nielsen and Inger Nielsen Keesler, as Beneficiaries of the Will of Effie M. Gatrel, Deceased, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Germaine A. Duyvejonck, as Executor of the Will of James Frederick Gatrel, Deceased, Respondent-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

April 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Rosborough, of Moline, for appellants.

Myron Murphy, of Rock Island, for appellee.


CULBERTSON, J.

This case presents as its principal issue the construction of the will of Effie M. Gatrel, deceased, and arises from a controversy between remaindermen and the executor of the estate of the life tenant.

The decedent, Effie M. Gatrel, died on March 21, 1944. By her last will, dated March 26, 1943, she first directed the payment of her funeral expenses and just debts, and then disposed of the balance of her estate as follows:

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