Smith v. Kneer

Appellant filed her bill in the circuit court of Peoria county against George W. Kneer, Abram Miller and her former husband, John Smith, appellees, asking the court to set aside a conveyance by said John Smith to George W. Kneer of one hundred and sixty acres of land in the said county as having been made without consideration, against her rights and interests; to find and declare that she had a homestead estate in said land, and to assign and set off the same to her. The defendant John Smith was defaulted, and the other defendants answered denying the material allegations of the bill. The…