Stevenson v. Westfall
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a proceeding commenced by Westfall, by petition, for partition, in the McDonough Circuit Court, stating that Mary Eliza Johnson was an infant, and entitled, with others, also minors, to one-eighth of the property to be partitioned, and praying process, which was made returnable on the 22d of October, 1849. The petition was amended on the 26th of February, 1850. There was a guardian ad Utem appointed for the minors, and a decree, pro confesso, was taken as to a part…
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This was a proceeding commenced by Westfall, by petition, for partition, in the McDonough Circuit Court, stating that Mary Eliza Johnson was an infant, and entitled, with others, also minors, to one-eighth of the property to be partitioned, and praying process, which was made returnable on the 22d of October, 1849. The petition was amended on the 26th of February, 1850. There was a guardian ad Utem appointed for the minors, and a decree, pro confesso, was taken as to a part of the defendants. The decree was taken at October term, 1850, of the McDonough Circuit Court, upon the report of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.
The only question of interest in this case arises on the plea of the statute óf limitations. That plea alleges that more than five years have elapsed since the rendition of the judgment, and since the plaintiff in error (who is a woman) attained the age of eighteen years. To this plea a demurrer is filed, and thus, for the first time, is the question presented to this court, whether, under our statute, females attain their majority at the age of eighteen years, or like males, not until they are twenty-one years of age. Although I cannot see how it is possible to give the statute but one…
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