Illinois Supreme Court January 15, 1862 (Clarke v. Quackenbos)

Breese, J.

This case presents not a single feature to commend it to the favorable consideration of any court.

The answer of the appellant, sustained as it is by all the proofs in the cause, shows a case of such heartlessness on the part of the complainants—such want of filial regard—such absence of affection and reverence for an aged mother on the very brink of the grave, and who had been more