Kirkwood v. Smith

This was a bill in chancery filed by the appellant and a number of others, as the heirs-at-law of Margaret Bockoven, deceased. The bill alleged that the said deceased, at the time of her death, which occurred on the 28th day of January, 1902, was seized of the title in fee to the north-west quarter of section 25, town 18, north, range 11, west of the second principal meridian, in Vermilion county, Illinois; that she died intestate, and that the lands descended to the said complainants, as the heirs-at-law of said deceased, as tenants in common, and prayed for a decree partitioning and…