Robinson v. Ruprecht

This was a bill in chancery filed in the circuit court of Cook county to partition the real estate of which Curtis E. Robinson, Sr., died seized. The appellants, a brother, a sister and four nieces of the said deceased, filed the bill, and therein alleged that said deceased left neither widow, child, children, descendants of child or children, father or mother, him surviving, and that they and the appellee Nathan S. Robinson, a brother of said deceased, (who refused to join in the bill as a complainant and was thereupon made a defendant,) were the only legal heirs of said deceased, and were,…