Walker v. Ray

In February, 1848, Thomas A. Speers paid to the receiver of the land office at Chicago, fifty dollars for the entry of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section 17, town 37, north, range 15, east of the third principal meridian, containing forty acres, and received a certificate of entry therefor. In May, 1849, a patent was issued to him for the land. In 1854 or 1855 he died intestate, leaving no widow, but a child, named Josephine Speers, then ten years old, as his only heir at law, to whom the title descended. Subsequently, about the year 1860, she intermarried with Sidney…