Kostelny v. Peterson

This is a direct appeal, based upon loss of a freehold, prosecuted by the plaintiff, Grace R. Kostelny, to review a decree of the superior court of Cook County denying her request for partition of a Chicago property and, in accordance with the counterclaim of August Peterson, her former husband, ordering the registration of a certain quitclaim deed which purportedly divested plaintiff of her interest.

Plaintiff and August Peterson, herein called defendant, were married on April 5, 1926, and shortly thereafter, together with Jenny Peterson and Edwin Peterson, they acquired the property in…