Focht v. Wakefield

Because of a firm conviction that the majority opinion in this case is unjust and inequitable to the heirs of Mary J. Henderson, in taking from them a one-fourth interest in the real estate of which their mother had died seized, and for which she had paid her husband $600 cash for a quitclaim deed releasing all his interests therein, I respectfully dissent, and will review the record to set out some of the important facts in greater detail.

This was an appeal by plaintiff from a decree dismissing his petition for the partition of certain real estate and confirming the title thereof in the…