(February 11, 2021, 9:35 AM EST) -- ELGIN, Ill.— An Illinois appeals court panel on Feb. 1 ordered a new trial in an action to determine whether a woman’s marriage to a now-deceased man who was subject to a guardianship at the time of the event was valid, thus making her his heir, finding that the trial court judge erred when ruling that the woman could not testify under the Dead Man’s Act....