McDowell v. Lucas
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Wabash county; the Hon. Tazewell B. Tanner, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
This was a petition, brought by W. W. McDowell, in the circuit court of Wabash county, against William Lucas and others, heirs at law of Fielding Lucas, deceased, for the partition of a certain tract of land, consisting of forty acres, of which Fielding Lucas died seized, on the 25th day of November, 1875.
It appears, from the record, that Fielding Lucas left him surviving six children,—Bobert, William, Susan, Polly, Martin Lucas and Mary Ann Jones, and a widow, Catharine Lucas; that at the time of his death, he owned one hundred and sixty acres of land in Wabash county, forty acres of which…
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