Bartholomew v. Bartholomew

Alhertus Y. Bartholomew died intestate leaving a widow and five children surviving him as his only heirs at law, and leaving a farm of about five hundred and twenty-two acres in Peoria county. John B. Bartholomew, one of his children, bought the interests in said farm of all the other children, except his sister Dura H. Bartholomew, and thereupon became the owner of four-fifths and she of one-fifth. Thereupon he made extensive improvement’s upon said farm and filed a bill in partition against his sister and others. There were incumbrances and questions of dower and matters of rent, all of…