Barker v. Hauberg

Minnie R. Barker, her husband, Wilbur B. Barker, and their four children, William C., Francis M., J. Edwin and Sarah J. Barker, filed a bill in the circuit court of Rock Island county against Sue D. Hauberg, her husband, John H. Hauberg, and the West End Settlement of Rock Island, an Illinois corporation, to compel the specific performance of a contract, and have appealed from the decree therein which sustained the demurrer of the defendants and dismissed the bill for want of equity.

The bill alleged that for many years Mrs. Barker, with the assistance of other members of her family, had been…