Lininger v. Helpenstell

Appellee, as administrator of the estate of Jacob Deis, deceased, filed his petition in the county court of Rock Island county, praying for an order directing him, as such administrator, to sell certain real estate alleged to have been owned by said deceased, to pay the debts of said estate. Incidentally it was also sought to have certain deeds of record in that county delivered up and canceled of record as clouds upon the title to said real estate. The only defense interposed to the petition was that Jacob Deis was not, at the time of his death, the owner of said real estate.

Upon the hearing…