Belfield v. Findlay

Mr. Justice; Wilson

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, Agnes Belfield, Margaret Horton, Sarah E. Grate, Florence Grate and Ida Grate Silvius, filed a complaint against the defendant, Nelson Findlay, a minor, and Jeanette M. Findlay, guardian of his estate, in the circuit court of Kendall county to quiet title to real estate consisting of an eighty-acre farm. The cloud, alleged in the complaint to exist, arose under the will of Sarah Findlay, deceased. She devised the property to her son, Arthur Findlay, for life, and on his death “the said land to go to his children, or if he…