Dean v. Shreve

This was a bill for partition, brought by Margaret Shreve, in the circuit court of Champaign county, in which she claimed to own the undivided half of the east half of the south-east quarter of section 33, township 22, north, range 10, east of the third principal meridian, in Champaign county. In the bill it was alleged that the other undivided half of the land belonged to Abbie Pierce and Huida Crawford, each owning an undivided one-fourth.

It appears from the evidence that in 1865 Morgan L. Bullock died intestate, seized of the land in controversy, leaving his widow, Patience Bullock, and…