Lee v. Finley

In 1949, the present defendants, Eula Lee Matthews Finley and Henry P. Willimon, brought an action for partition in the superior court of Cook County, to which action the present plaintiff, John Lee, was made a defendant. The cause was referred to a master and the court later entered a decree allowing partition and finding that the deeds under which Lee claimed title were forgeries and he therefore had no interest in the land in question. Thereafter, Lee filed a petition with the trial court to vacate the decree, based upon the allegation that he had no notice of the pendency of the suit and…