Jacobs v. Ditz

This suit was begun by a writ of error issued from this court to bring up the record of the circuit court of White-side county in a suit for partition of lands in that county. The question involved is whether the title to lands devised to the plaintiff in error, Louis Ditz, by his father, Henry Ditz, vested in the devisee at the death of the testator, or was subject to a condition precedent to be performed before the estate should vest. The question is to be determined from the following facts: Henry Ditz was the owner of the lands and had two children,—Sophia Jacobs, one of the defendants in…