Perry v. Burton

This was a bill for the partition, as first drawn, of a tract of eighty acres of land in Cook county, and to quiet the title thereto. By an amendment to the bill, the north forty acres of the tract were taken out of the controversy, and the allegations and prayer of the bill were limited to the south forty acres.

The tract was entered by Isaac Cook on the 30th of November, 1835, and he conveyed the undivided half thereof to Asa M. Chambers and Sheldon Benedict, by warranty deed, on the 7th of February, 1836. In November, 1848, Benedict conveyed his interest in the tract to Chambers, and on the…