Hasterlick v. Hasterlick

This is an appeal from a decree for partition of certain real property. The complainant, Samuel Hasterlick, and one Ignatz Hasterlick (the husband of the defendant Lillian Hasterlick) purchased the property in question in 1908 for $34,000, and subsequently improved it. Each was seized of an individual one-half interest in the property in fee simple. Ignatz Hasterlick died in 1921, leaving surviving him his widow, Lillian Hasterlick, and three minor children. The widow was appointed guardian for the children. By his will the deceased devised all his property, including his individual one-half…