Jaster v. Spikings

This writ of error involves the title to a ten-acre tract of farm land in Cook county. A bill for the partition of it was dismissed for want of equity and a decree was entered on a cross-bill, quieting title in the cross-complainants, the defendants in the original bill. This writ of error was sued out by the complainants in the original bill.

Hobart Cannon acquired title to the land on February 22, 1864, and died intestate on March 5, 1864, survived by his widow, Gertrude, his son, Gangolf, and a daughter, now Gertrude Spikings, born about three months later. The widow married John Kuhl, a…