Kern v. Beatty

Appellee Clara L. Kern filed a bill in the circuit court of Rock Island county for the partition of certain property in the city of Rock Island of which she alleged her sister, Matilda Beatty, was seized in fee simple at the time of her death, January 24, 1913. The bill alleges that Matilda Beatty died intestate, leaving no husband or child or children or descendants of a deceased child or children, but left her surviving as her only heirs-at-law, appellee and certain nephews and nieces, who were made parties defendant to the bill; that appellant, Frank J. Beatty, and his wife, Nellie Beatty,…