American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions v. Nelson

Citations

• 72 Ill. 564

Syllabus

<p>Will—when revoked 6y marriage. Marriage, under our statute makinthe husband and wife heirs to each other where there are no children or descendants of a child, is, in the absence of facts arising subsequent to marriage showing an intention to die testate, a revocation of a will, made by the husband prior to his marriage, by which he disposed of his whole estate without making provision in contemplation of the relations arising out of it. The rule in Tyler v. Tyler, 19 Ill. 151, adhered to.</p>