Pool v. Blakie
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of -DeWitt county • the Hon. John M. Scott, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery for partition. The principal question is in reference to the proper construction of a deed executed by George L. Hill and wife, whereby they conveyed certain land to their daughter, Sarah L. Blakie, a married woman.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of -DeWitt county • the Hon. John M. Scott, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery for partition. The principal question is in reference to the proper construction of a deed executed by George L. Hill and wife, whereby they conveyed certain land to their daughter, Sarah L. Blakie, a married woman. The deed witnessed, “ that the said party of the first part, as well for, and in consideration of, the natural love and affection which they have and bear to the said Sarah L. Blakie, and for settling and assuring the premises hereinafter described and granted,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.Chief Justice Breese
delivered the opinion of the Court:
This was a bill in chancery, exhibited by Sarah E. Pool, suing by her next friend, in the DeWjtt circuit court, to which John Blakie and Margaret Blakie were made defendants. The object of the bill was to obtain partition of a tract of land therein described, on the allegations that Sarah L. Blakie Yas •seized, in her life time, of an estate in fee simple in the land, and that she devised the same, by her last will and testament, to her children, the complainant being one, and the defendant, Margaret, the other. It is also alleged that…
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