Beatty v. Clegg

This is a suit for the partition of eighty acres of land and several town lots at one time owned by George Beatty, who died in 1893, leaving his daughter, Elizabeth Beatty, his only heir-at-law. She claimed the town lots as heir-at-law and the land by virtue of a deed from her father, George Beatty, dated August 29, 1885, under which she occupied said land until her death, on March 31, 1904. Her heirs-at-law were three uncles on her mother’s side, two of whom were complainants in the original bill filed in the circuit court of Coles county and the other was a defendant. One of the…