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Coquillard, 62 Ind. App. 426 & 489 (1916), read whole
The 1916 partition record sizes an Alexis Coquillard's lands at $113,575 and $43,375 — and the testator is not the founder. The two companion appeals, Coquillard v. Coquillard, 62 Ind. App. 426, 113 N.E. 474, and 62 Ind. App. 489, 113 N.E. 481 (Indiana Court of Appeals, 21 June 1916), are partition suits over the lands of an Alexis Coquillard, Sr., who died testate on 26 February 1890, his will probated 3 March 1890; the record names his widow, Maude M. Coquillard (born 23 October 1854), and his sons Alexis Coquillard, Jr. (born 21 January 1882) and Joseph A. Coquillard (born 18 December 1884). The opinion values the lands in controversy at $113,575 in the one appeal and $43,375 in the other, and characterises them in the court's own finding: they "yield but little income," their "main value" lying in "fitness for subdivision" — valley land held for the city's growth, fifteen years after the founder's grandson's generation came of age. The identification must be printed as an identification, because the names collide: the founder Alexis Coquillard (born 28 September 1795 at Detroit; died 8 January 1855) cannot be the 1890 testator, and the carriers place exactly one man in the slot — the founder's only child, named "Theodore, born here in 1846" in the History Museum's Cabin Days curriculum and "Alexis T." in the founder's reference record. On that footing the 1890 testator is read as the founder's son, and the sized estate is the second generation's: $156,950 of lands in controversy across the two suits (a sum of two dockets, printed as such, not as a probate total). The tested file's limb is thereby re-based: the Lakeville mill (1854–c. 1864) and the 1857 Addition were the founder's works, entered in the trade article below; the fortune the record sizes is his son's land estate, a generation later and a county away in kind. The elder's own probate figure — an 1855 estate, the founder's — stands as the row's residue: settler, the St. Joseph County probate record of 1855, named and current.
Principal sources: Coquillard v. Coquillard, 62 Ind. App. 426, 113 N.E. 474, and 62 Ind. App. 489, 113 N.E. 481 (Ind. Ct. App. 1916), read via the appellate-report carriers (Google Books / vLex / Casemine) November 2026; The History Museum (South Bend), Cabin Days curriculum and the Cedar Grove Cemetery record (the founder's dates and only child); the banked this history lk-tst-wealth (the limb as it stood).