O'Malley v. Deany

This case is an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of Iroquois county awarding partition and an accounting. The principal issue in the case is whether a deed by appellant Julia O’Malley to appellee, Clement O’Malley, passed title to a part of the land involved, and therefore a freehold is involved, giving us jurisdiction on direct appeal.

In March, 1920, John O’Malley and his wife, Julia O’Malley, became the owners in fee of one hundred sixty acres of land as tenants in common. John O’Malley died intestate December 18, 1939, and left him surviving Julia O’Malley, his widow, and…