Coleman v. Billings
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by William T. Coleman against Elizabeth S. Billings, Lewis B. Parsons, Catharine W. Gronau, John Gronau and Amos Atkins, for the partition of a half section of land, being the south half of section 25, township 3 north, range 9 west.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. William H. Snyder, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by William T. Coleman against Elizabeth S. Billings, Lewis B. Parsons, Catharine W. Gronau, John Gronau and Amos Atkins, for the partition of a half section of land, being the south half of section 25, township 3 north, range 9 west. The certificate of the acknoAvledgment of the deed of Joseph Worley, and Elizabeth Worley, his wife, referred to in the opinion, is as follows: “ State of Illinois, 1 gg Monroe County. j “ Personally present the above named Joseph…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
This appeal brings before us for review the record of a proceeding, by bill in chancery, for partition, in behalf of appellant and against appellees. The decree, on final hearing, was, that the bill be dismissed.
Appellant claims title to the undivided four-fifths of the tract of land in controversy, derived through a series of mesne conveyances from John Beard, the original patentee, who died intestate many years since. On the hearing he offered in evidence a deed for an undivided oue-fifoh of the tract, from Elizabeth Worley, one of the children and heirs at law of the said John Beard, to…
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