Gardner v. Ladue

Citations

• 47 Ill. 211

Syllabus

<p>1. Wills—made in a foreign. Stale. Where the certificate of the probate of a will in a foreign State, shows that it was executed and proved- according to tho laws of that State, and such certificate is in the mode required by our statute, it is admissible in evidence.</p> <p>2. Same. And it is no objection, that the will was proved by only one of the subscribing witnesses, when, by the laws of the State where such will was made, but one witness was necessary to prove its execution.</p> <p>3. Estoppel. Where two persons, both bearing the same name, became entitled to military bounty land, and a patent was issued to each for certain lands, differently located, and in the delivery of the patents a mistake occurred, by which the patent of one was delivered to the other, but both acted on the facts of the case existing at the time, and profited out of the same, without objection being made on the part of either: JKdd, that neither their grantees nor any other person, could raise the question of such mistake in the delivery of the patents; and that each of them, and their representatives, were estopped from claiming the land of the other.</p>