Hinds v. Surbeck

This was a bill filed to the June term, 1912, of the circuit court of Edgar county by defendant in error to partition 50 acres of land in that county. After the issues were settled a hearing was had before the chancellor and a decree entered finding defendant in error the owner of an undivided one-seventh of the real estate, and certain of the plaintiffs in error (heirs of Matthew Merkle) owners of an undivided four-sevenths and Louisa Pitcher of two-sevenths. Plaintiffs in error, who claimed the undivided interest which the court found in defendant in error, have sued out this writ of error.

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