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68 Ill. App. 3d 30

Ogle v. Ogle

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided January 23, 1979

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1979-01-23

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Decided 1979-01-23

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Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2018

1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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Mr. JUSTICE TRAPP,

¶1specially concurring:

¶2From the face of the documents, there is no apparent reason to conclude that two elderly people intended to execute their reciprocal wills to provide that their property go to the named beneficiaries only upon the event that they die in a common disaster.

¶3While the principal opinion functions within the established rules of case law, it is cause for distress to observe that, as in Bradshaw and Blansett heretofore, counsel prepare such defective wills that the apparent intentions of the testators is frustrated.

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