Roberts v. Cox

The appellants filed their bill in the circuit court of Coles county against the appellees, claiming title to three-fourteenths of a tract of land containing forty acres and praying for partition of the same. The appellees defended under the twenty-year and seven-year Statutes of Limitation. The issues were, ref erred to the master in chancery, who took the evidence and reported the same, with his recommendation that the bill be dismissed for want of equity, at the appellants’ cost. The chancellor overruled exceptions to the report and entered a decree in accordance with the recommendation.…