Doty v. Doty

This was a bill for the partition of forty acres of land, filed May 23,1894, in the circuit court of Macoupin county, by Francis M. Doty and others, as the heirs-at-law of their father, Elijah Doty, deceased, against Elijah Doty, (a son of said Elijah Doty, deceased,) Alexander V. Webber, Richard Aulabaugh and Charles O. Matlack. The bill alleges that said Doty, the father, in his lifetime entered the land in question at the land office at Edwards-ville in the fall of 1853, at the government price of $1.25 per acre, and paid the total amount, $50, at that time, and that he afterwards received…