Davis v. Lang
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
In the year 1873 Daniel B. Davis died intestate, and seized in fee of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Morgan county. He left him surviving his widow and four children,—John Kenney Davis, the plaintiff in error, William R. Davis, Harriet A. Lang and Sarah J. Ransdell. Said William R. Davis conveyed, by quit-claim deed, his undivided one-quarter interest in the land to plaintiff in error. In 1885 the widow died. In 1889 Harriet A. Lang and Sarah J. Ransdell exhibited this their bill for partition, alleging the above facts ; that they were each the owner of an undivided one-fourth…
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