BRADSHAW v. LEWIS

No. 71-162.

5 Ill. App.3d 261 (1972)

282 N.E.2d 152

HELEN BRADSHAW, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMR. OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH B. LEWIS, Deceased, et al., Plaintiffs, Counter-Defendants, Appellants, v. RALPH DAYTON LEWIS, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMR. OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH B. LEWIS, Deceased, et al., Defendants, Counter-Claimants, Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District.

April 24, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aplington, Kaufman & Barry, of La Salle, and Gunner & Keller, of Dixon, (Fremont M. Kaufman, of counsel,) for appellants.

Edward M. Sullivan, of Amboy, and Keegan & Gosdick, of Rockford, (Thomas A. Keegan, of counsel,) for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

Mr. JUSTICE ABRAHAMSON delivered the opinion of the court:

In 1944, Ralph B. Lewis and Nellie R. Lewis, his wife, purchased as joint tenants a 440 acre farm, that they had farmed for many years as tenants, from the estate of their deceased landlord. In February, 1956, they executed a joint last will and testament that left all of their property to the survivor and, in the event of their simultaneous death, gave the farm to their son...

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