Hathaway v. Cook

This is a bill filed by appellees in the circuit court of Champaign county asking to set aside a certain deed from Ann Jane Cook to Washington Cook, her husband, and to partition the forty acres of land described therein among the heirs of said Ann Jane Cook. Washington and Ann Jane Cook lived together for many years on the land in question. It was conveyed to her by the Illinois Central Railroad Company in 1872. On April 12, 1884, she signed and acknowledged a quit-claim deed to the forty acres to the said Washing-ton Cook, reciting that it was made for the express and only purpose of…