Teel v. Dunnihoo
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Williamson county; the Hon. A. W. Lewis, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed by appellants, Harry C. Teel and Nona Teel, (formerly Nona Stocks,) and Elmo Stocks, by his guardian, John Stocks, against the appellees, to partition certain farm lands situated in Williamson county between Nona Teel and Elmo Stocks, who were alleged to be the owners in fee simple thereof, and to impeach and set aside as a cloud upon the title of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Williamson county; the Hon. A. W. Lewis, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed by appellants, Harry C. Teel and Nona Teel, (formerly Nona Stocks,) and Elmo Stocks, by his guardian, John Stocks, against the appellees, to partition certain farm lands situated in Williamson county between Nona Teel and Elmo Stocks, who were alleged to be the owners in fee simple thereof, and to impeach and set aside as a cloud upon the title of said Nona Teel and Elmo Stocks a certain decree entered by the circuit court of Williamson county on April 17, 1891, in a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hand
It is first contended that the opinion filed by the court on the former appeal is conclusive against the right of the appellees to recover in this case. The question presented to this court when the case was here before was, did the decree entered in the case of Stocks ct al. v. Stocks et al. by the circuit court of Williamson county, and' the master’s deed made in pursuance of said decree, divest the fee simple title of Nona Teel and Elmo Stocks in the real estate in controversy and invest Mary E. A. Stocks with the fee simple title to said premises ?—and it was held, for the reasons there…
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