McDonald v. McDonald

The plaintiff, Lawrence W. McDonald, brought an action in the circuit court of McLean County against the defendants, Eugene H. McDonald, his brother, and Hanna I. McDonald, Mary E. Hogan and Sarah M. Hackett, his sisters, to set aside five deeds effecting a voluntary partition of a farm, principally upon the ground of fraud, and for partition of the land by the court. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the owner of a mortgage on the farm, was also made a defendant. Eugene McDonald filed a counterclaim against plaintiff, his former partner in the operation of the farm, for an accounting…