McFarland v. Larkin

In March, 1880, James Fitzgerald died seized in fee of lots 72, 73, 74 and 75, of sub-lot or block 42, in canal trustees’ subdivision of section 33, township 40, north, range 14, east of the third principal meridian, in Cook county, Illinois, which lots, with the cottage thereon, constituted the family homestead. He left surviving him, as his children and heirs-at-law, Edward Fitzgerald, Mary Ann McFarland and Margaret Fitzgerald, the latter then a minor of sixteen years, who, after attaining majority, married one Larkin, and is the complainant (appellee) in this case. The decedent also left,…