Humphreys v. Humphreys

This is an appeal from a decree of the Henry county circuit court dismissing a bill in chancery to set aside two certain deeds and for partition of the lands described in the bill.

The facts out of which this litigation arose are, that in 1894 Hiram Humphreys was the owner in fee of 340 acres of farm land in Henry county and three lots in the village of Annawan. He was then about sixty-seven years old, had a wife, Martha, and four children. Two of these were sons, Grant and Charles, and two were daughters, Jennie May- and one known in this record as Minnie, who is made a complainant as Mary E.…