McDuffee v. Sinnott

This is an appeal by Andrew J. McDuffee and others, from ■ a decree of the circuit court of Lake county, awarding partition of a certain quarter section of land, at the suit of John Sinnott and others, claiming as heirs-at-law of John Sinnott, . deceased.

The bill in the case, which is clearly sustained by the proofs, shows that Isaac T. Townsend and wife, on the 14th day of July, 1852, conveyed the land in controversy to John Sinnott, the father of the complainants, and of Maria E. Bennett, one of the defendants; that within a short time thereafter, Sinnott went into possession of the land…