Holeton v. Thayer
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill to Quiet Title—Cross-bill. Trial in the Circuit Court of Vermilion .County; the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwaltbr, Judge, presiding. Decree for complainant; appeal by one of the defendants. Heard in this court at the May term, 1899.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Wright
delivered the opinion of the court.
In the beginning this was a bill in equity filed by Hannah M. B. Thayer against appellant and others to quiet title to eighty acres of land rendered uncertain by the will of her grandfather, Francis H. Holeton, from whom she derived title, and to remove as a cloud upon such title the claim of appellant to the specific legacy of $1,000 named in the will. John W. Holeton and appellant, sons of Francis H. Holeton, being defendants to the bill of appellee Thayer, filed separate cross-bills, the former to remove a cloud upon the land…
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