Harvey v. Ballard

On August 22, 1910, the appellant, Adele L. Shreve Harvey, whose name was then Adele L- Shreve Ballard, and who was the widow of Bland Ballard, deceased, but has since been married to Paul Harvey, filed her petition under the Burnt Records act in the circuit court of Cook county against her children, Bland Ballard, Shreve Ballard and Belle Sheridan Ballard, and others, who are appellees, alleging that she was the equitable owner in fee simple of a lot in Chicago by virtue of the last will and testament of her father, Thomas T. Shreve, of the city of Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, the…