Shipley v. Shipley

In July, 1915, Amos Shipley, the appellee herein, filed a bill in the circuit court of Edgar county asking to have the title to an eighty-acre farm in that county quieted and declared in his name in fee simple. Appellee’s eight children,—five sons and three daughters,—were named as defendants. The three daughters answered and also filed a cross-bill, both pleadings denying that their father had a fee simple title in the land. Four of the sons joined with their father in an answer to the cross-bill, representing that the land belonged to the father, as he alleged. The other son answered the…