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  "id": 4957481,
  "name": "Willard H. Alexander et al. v. The North Western Masonic Aid Association et al.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Alexander v. North Western Masonic Aid Ass'n",
  "decision_date": "1888-05-31",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "29",
  "last_page": "30",
  "citations": [
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      "cite": "27 Ill. App. 29"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
  },
  "cites_to": [
    {
      "cite": "62 Ill. 417",
      "category": "reporters:state",
      "reporter": "Ill.",
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      ],
      "opinion_index": 0,
      "case_paths": [
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      ]
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  "analysis": {
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:38:40.638408+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Willard H. Alexander et al. v. The North Western Masonic Aid Association et al."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThe questions in this case arise upon a bill of interpleader brought by the North Western Masonic Aid Association and the personal representatives of the estate of Elijah S. Alexander, deceased, against the appellants, heirs of said deceased, for the purpose of a judicial determination of the question of the disposition of a fund of $8,500, in the hands of said association, and accruing by reason of the membership therein of said deceased in his lifetime, and three certain certificates of the association issued respectively January 28, 1882, whereby the said association promised and agreed to pay to the devisees or to the heirs at law of said Elijah S. Alexander, etc., the sums specified in each, aggregating said sum of $8,500. The said Alexander died intestate, February 23, 1886, leaving no child or descendants of a child, but leaving Josephine P. Alexander, his widow, him surviving.\nThe court below by its decree determined that said widow was the sole heir at law to the personal property of said deceased and that the other heirs at law, the father, mother and brother, etc., had no right, title or interest in said fund or any part thereof.\nFrom that decree this appeal was taken. Upon due consideration we are of opinion that the case is governed by the rules announced in Richards v. Miller, 62 Ill. 417, and that the decree below should be affirmed.\nDecree affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per Curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Messrs. Cratty Brothers & Ashcraft, for plaintiffs in error.",
      "Mr. E. Walker, for defendant in error."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Willard H. Alexander et al. v. The North Western Masonic Aid Association et al.\nAdministration \u2014 Personal Property \u2014 Rights of Widow \u2014 Mutual Benefit Certificates.\nUpon the death of a husband leaving no child or children or descendants of a child or children, the widow is entitled to the entire proceeds of mutual benefit certificates payable \u201c to the heirs at law\u201d of the deceased.\n[Opinion filed May 31, 1888.]\nIn error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Gwynn Garnett, Judge, presiding.\nMessrs. Cratty Brothers & Ashcraft, for plaintiffs in error.\nMr. E. Walker, for defendant in error."
  },
  "file_name": "0029-01",
  "first_page_order": 25,
  "last_page_order": 26
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