Markoe v. Wakeman

This is a petition for partition, filed by Hartman Markoe, in the Superior Court of Cook county, December 6, 1870, claiming to be the owner in fee of the undivided half of eighty acres of land, known as the east half of. the south-east quarter of section 27, township 38, range 14, and lying a few miles south of the present city of Chicago. The entire quarter section, containing one hundred and sixty acres, was originally entered at the land office of Chicago by Herman Bond, on June 27, 1835. On December 4, 1835, Bond, by an instrument in writing filed in the land office, sold and assigned his…