Griswold v. Hicks

On the 16th day of September, 1867, William Hicks was the owner of four certain forty-acre tracts of land, and on that -day conveyed the same to four of his children by the following deed:

“This indenture, made the 16th day of September, in the jear of our Lord 1867, between William Hicks, of the county ■of Greene and State of Illinois, party of the first part, and Isham V. Hicks, William H. V. D. Hicks, Luther M. Hicks and Laura A. Hicks, and the heirs of their bodies, all of the ■.same county and State, party of the second part:

“ Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in…