Seuss v. Schukat

A decree entered by the superior court of Cook county ordered partition of a parcel of real property among the brother and four sisters of an intestate to the exclusion of her surviving husband and directed him to account for the rents and profits he collected. Otto Schukat, the surviving husband, prosecutes this writ of error to review the record.

Johanna M. Wolfram, a widow, owned in fee simple a certain lot and the building thereon situated in the city of Chicago. On August 29, 1912, she was about to marry Otto Schukat, and in anticipation of the impending change in her status, she entered…