People Ex Rel. Smith v. L. W. Brewer Estate

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• defendant had constructive possession of drugs found in apartment where he “stayed in the apartment, paid rent there, and possessed a key to the apartment”
• “A will speaks from the death of the testator. At the moment of his death the rights of his heirs and devisees to succeed to his estate are fixed and vested ***.”
• “The effect of the probate of a will is to vest the title in the devisee as completely as a deed from the owner of property vests the title in his grantee ***.”
• \A will speaks from the death of the testator. At the moment of his death the rights of his heirs and devisees to succeed to his estate are fixed and vested ***.\
• \The effect of the probate of a will is to vest the title in the devisee as completely as a - 15 - deed from the owner of property vests the title in his grantee ***.\

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