McDonald v. McDonald

This case was transferred to this court by the Supreme Court of Illinois for the reason that the issues thereby presented did not involve a freehold. McDonald v. McDonald, 414 Ill. 118.

The litigation out of which this appeal grows began when plaintiff, Lawrence W. McDonald, brought suit in the circuit court of McLean county against Eugene H. McDonald, Ms brother (defendant herein), and his three sisters, seeking to set aside five deeds by which the parties had voluntarily partitioned a farm of 320 acres, and to have the court decree partition thereof. Defendant filed a counterclaim against…