Ingalls v. Rowell

This was a bill in chancery, brought by. Nathaniel Rowell, Jacob H. Rowell, Annie E. Rowell, Laura E. Rowell and Sarah Genevieve Rowell, the children and heirs at law of Hopkins Rowell, deceased, to set aside and annul an administrator’s sale of certain lands belonging to the estate of the decedent, made for the purpose of paying debts. It appears that Hopkins Rowell died intestate October 1, 1880, being the owner, at the time of his death, of two tracts of land lying near the city of Joliet, one containing about 154 acres, and subject to a mortgage of $4000 and interest, and the other…