Keats v. Cates

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding Illinois circuit court had jurisdiction under long-arm statute over California executor of decedent’s estate for purpose of determining ownership of Illinois real estate and accounting for rents therefrom
• stating the general rule that a contract to devise or bequeath property which is entered into during the marriage cannot defeat the rights of the surviving spouse unless such surviving spouse has relinquished her rights in some other way

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).