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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: Harrison Dillman, James Dillman, David C. Dillman, Turner
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 21:27:31 -0500

Bloomington Saturday Courier, October 1, 1881. p. 1.

Circuit Court Proceedings.

Almost the entire time of the Court this week was taken up in trying the
case of Harrison M. Dillman and others, against James L. Dilliman and
others. This was a suit to set aside the will of the late David C.
Dillman, the plaintiffs in chief being sons of the deceased. It seems that
the old gentlemen left his property to James L. Dillman, and a
grandaughter, Miss Turner, and one-third to his widow, the rest of his
children being cut off with a mere pittance. The grounds for the suit was
the testator was of unsound mind at the time of making the will. The trial
lasted five days and there were thirty or forty witnesses in the case. The
plaintiffs in the case were represented by Buskirk & Duncan and Frideley
(sic), Pearson & Friedley, and the defense by Louden & Miers and East &
East.

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