Emmert v. Aldridge

The present action is one in partition seeking the division of one hundred and twenty acres of land in Schuyler county. The petition avers that one Charles Aldridge died in 1903 seized of this *125land, and then charges that the plaintiff and defendants are the heirs at law of the said Charles, and such persons as have purchased from his widow and heirs at law. The respective interests of children and grand children are pleaded and set out. The prayer is for the sale of the premises, and partition of the proceeds. In the petition it is averred that the defendant Lewis Starhuck had, since the…