Hackleman v. Hackleman

One Mary J. Connor died in the year 1889, leaving the appellant, her brother, and the appellees, her nephew and niece, the children of a deceased brother, her only heirs-at-law. On the 31st day of January, 1898, the appellant filed a bill in chancery in the Coles circuit court for a decree declaring a certain deed held by the said Mary J. Connor, purporting to convey to her the southeast quarter of section 27, town 14, north, range 8, east of the third principal meridian, in Coles county, (which land, the bill alleged, belonged to the appellant,) to be but a mortgage, the conditions whereof…