Foote v. City of Chicago

On December 2J, 1922, Etta W. Foote, now deceased, filed a bill in the superior court of Cook county against the city of Chicago and the board of education of that city, seeking partition of forty acres of land lying on the northwest side of Chicago, in which she claimed an undivided one-half interest in fee. Following her death during the pendency of the suit, her sons, Ralph A. and Andrew J. Foote, were substituted as her only heirs-at-law. They prosecuted the suit, evidence was heard before the master and on his report the chancellor dismissed their bill for want of equity. From that…