McDermaid v. Russell

The only question we can consider on this record is, as to the appearance in court of certain infant defendants.

It appears that Lucretia A. Russell, the defendant in error, filed a bill in chancery in the McHenry Circuit Court, for the purpose of having adjudged to her, the share of the lands of her deceased husband, who died intestate and childless, she claiming as statutory heir. In her bill, she made the brothers and sisters of her husband, and their descendants, defendants, as his heirs at law, and prayed process against them. Among these heirs at law were three minors, namely, Thomas…