Heppe v. Szczepanski
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. L. Honors, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed in the circuit court of Cook county on June 19,1899, by the appellees against the appellants, and other parties herein named, for partition, and for the removal of certain deeds and trust deeds as clouds upon the title of the appellees.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. L. Honors, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed in the circuit court of Cook county on June 19,1899, by the appellees against the appellants, and other parties herein named, for partition, and for the removal of certain deeds and trust deeds as clouds upon the title of the appellees. Answers were filed to the bill, and a reference was taken to a master in chancery, who took testimony, and reported the same, and his conclusions. A final decree was rendered substantially in accordance with the prayer of the bill, and for partition, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
By the death of the testator, Frank. Szczepanski, on January 10, 1895, his widow and four daughters became, as devisees by the terms of his will, the owners each of an undivided one-fifth interest in the lot, described in the bill herein, and sought to be partitioned. By the subsequent death of two of the children, who were minors, the appellees, the two surviving children, also minors, became the owners each of an undivided six-twentieths of the premises in question, and the widow, Katharina Obecny, then the wife of Witt Obecny (formerly Katharina Szczepanski,) became the owner of an…
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