Chapin v. Nott
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Fulton county; the Hon. George W. Thompson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for partition, filed in the circuit court of Fulton county by Charles Nott and Mary Fluke, against Jasper Berry, Sarah Miller, Florence Chapin and Snowden Smith, administrator of the estate of Isaac Berry, deceased.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Fulton county; the Hon. George W. Thompson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for partition, filed in the circuit court of Fulton county by Charles Nott and Mary Fluke, against Jasper Berry, Sarah Miller, Florence Chapin and Snowden Smith, administrator of the estate of Isaac Berry, deceased. The bill alleged that complainants and said Jasper Berry and Sarah Miller were owners in fee, as tenants in common, of the south-west quarter of section 1, township 5, range 3, Fulton county, Illinois; that complainants each owned an undivided one-sixth and said Berry and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ricks
In this case the proof indisputably shows that Isaac Berry, the grantor, was seized of the land in question, subject to an inchoate right of dower of his daughter, Florence Chapin, appellant here, in a small portion of it; that he was seventy-four years of age, a widower, and that appellant was his only child; that he was seized of an estate consisting of the land in question and other real estate and about §10,000 in money; that appellant resided at Pine Bluff, North Carolina, with her husband, and that Isaac Berry resided at Lewiston, in Illinois; that appellant had one child, named Maud,…
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