Williams v. Williams

Appellees filed their bill in the circuit court of Cook county for the partition of a lot therein described, in the city of Chicago, referred to in the briefs as the Yale avenue property. The bill alleges that the three complainants and two defendants are the only surviving children of John Q. Williams, who died intestate October 31, 1903, owning in fee simple the lands sought to be partitioned. In addition to the five children he left surviving him his widow, Eliza J. Williams. The bill alleges that on or about August 22, 1900, Williams became totally insane and continued in that condition…