Hoeffner v. Hoeffner

A decree of the circuit court of Cook county dismissed the complaint of the plaintiff, Selma Hoeffner, seeking partition of an improved parcel of real estate between the defendant, Mary Hoeffner, and herself. Plaintiff prosecutes a direct appeal, a freehold being necessarily involved.

February 8, 1923, Peter Hoeffner and the plaintiff were married. Thereafter, on May 4, 1925, he obtained a divorce decree based upon plaintiff’s extreme and repeated cruelty. The decree recited that the parties had settled all their property rights and, pursuant to their agreement, Peter Hoeffner had paid to…