Shippert v. Shippert

This is an appeal to review a decree in a suit for partition of real estate, entered by the circuit court of Lee county, partitioning three farms in that county, of which John Shippert died seized, and which he left by will to his ten children and one grandchild. Four of the children are incompetents and the grandchild is a minor.

John Shippert devised these farms to Martha Shippert, his widow, for her life, and upon her death to go to his children. Martha Shippert died in January, 1932. Shortly after her death all of the children, with the exception of Harry W. Shippert, a son, and Olive A.…