Dean v. O'Meara
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ or Error to the Superior Court of Chicago; the Hon. J ohm A. Jamesom, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, for partition, or sale, if not divisible, of lot 16, in block 40, school section addition to the city of Chicago, instituted by the defendant in error, William O’Meara, in the Superior Court of Chicago. The further facts in the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
The chief question argued in this case, relating to the power of a married woman to convey her real estate without joinder by her husband, has already been decided by this court, in the the case of Cole v. Van Riper, 44 Ill., 58. The decree must, however, be reversed, for the failure of the court to direct the commissioners, in making partition, to set off to Mary Dean that portion of the premises upon which she had built a house, and to do this without charging her share with the value of the improvements. She owned, as appears by the pleadings and proof, an undivided interest in the lot,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cole v. RiperIllinois Supreme Court · 1867
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