Bayley v. Nichols

This is a suit brought in the circuit court of Cook county by the appellees, as trustees of the estate of Jonathan Clark, deceased, against the appellant, George Nichols, for partition and accounting, in which the chancellor, upon a hearing of exceptions to the report of a master in chancery, confirmed the report, granted the relief prayed for in the original bill and dismissed the cross-bill filed by appellant.

The facts appearing from the evidence are as follows: In 1888 Jonathan Clark and the defendant, George Nichols, contemplated purchasing the block west of Lake avenue between…