Dry v. Adams

Plaintiffs, three daughters and two grandchildren of William H. Robinson, deceased, filed their suit in the circuit court of Schuyler county seeking partition of one hundred eighty acres of land, and to remove, as a cloud on the title, a deed made by Robinson in his lifetime, conveying to two other daughters, Gladys C. Adams and Leonette Thannert, defendants, sixty acres of the land involved. Partition of the remaining one hundred twenty acres was not contested. The sole question at issue was whether the deed from Robinson to his daughters conveying the sixty acres passed title to them…