Scott v. Cornell

Asa Scott filed a bill in the circuit court of McLean county for the partition of two hundred acres of land in that county and the quieting of the title to the undivided one-half of said land against a deed which appeared upon record from Mary F. Cline to William H. Cline, who was made a defendant to the bill. From a decree which granted the relief prayed for, William .H. Cline has appealed.

The land was conveyed on February 27, 1905, by Joseph Lawson to William H. Cline and Mary F. Cline, his wife, for $27,000, which was paid by William H. Cline. Lawson knew no one in the transaction but…