Graff v. Rankin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Southern District of Illinois. Suit in equity by Minnie A. Rankin and Alexander C. Rankin against Charles Frederick Graff and Emily B. Graff. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
MACK, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the decree of the District Court quieting and confirming the title of the complainants, Alexander C. Rankin and his wife, Minnie A. Rankin, to certain lands in Mercer county, Ill., as against the claims of the defendants, Charles Frederick Graff, his wife, Emily B. Graff, and Wilbur F. Gilder, husband and sole devisee of Netta Graff Gilder, deceased, and dismissing *152for want of equity the cross-bill of defendant Charles F. Graff for possession and accounting.
Romulus Riggs the testator, died in the fall of 1846, seised of the land in controversy. He…
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