Field v. Leiter
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas A. Moran, Judge, presiding., ■ Levi Z. Leiter filed his bill in chancery, in "the circuit court of Cook county, on January 16, A. D. 1883, against Marshall Field, wherein, after subsequent amendments thereto, it is in substance alleged that complainant and -defendant are owners in fee simple of the following property in the city of Chicago, State of Illinois, viz: Commencing at the south-east corner of Washington…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Thomas A. Moran, Judge, presiding., ■ Levi Z. Leiter filed his bill in chancery, in "the circuit court of Cook county, on January 16, A. D. 1883, against Marshall Field, wherein, after subsequent amendments thereto, it is in substance alleged that complainant and -defendant are owners in fee simple of the following property in the city of Chicago, State of Illinois, viz: Commencing at the south-east corner of Washington and Market streets, iú said city of Chicago, running south on the east line of Market street, 401^T feet; thence east on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
Conceding that it is competent, as a majority of the court do, on the authority of Howey v. Goings, 13 Ill. 95, Dean et al. v. O’Meara et al. 47 id. 120, Wilton v. Tazwell, 86 id. 29, Labadie v. Hewitt, 85 id. 341, Hill v. Reno, 112 id. 154, and Gooter v. Dearborn, 115 id. 509, for a court of equity to decree the payment of a sum as owelty, to equalize the shares on partition of real estate, we can not consent to recognize that such a court can cause expensive improvements to be made upon property, preliminary to a partition, through its master in chancery, against the protest of one of the…
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