Higgins v. Higgins

The defendants, Thomas Higgins and his brothers and sisters, appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court which found that a partnership had existed between their deceased father, James M. Higgins, and their uncle, William P. Higgins, the plaintiff, and which further found that the partnership was the owner, in equity, of ten lots at the corner of 31st Place arid Wolcott Street in Chicago which comprised the partnership business premises. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court which transferred the cause here.

In 1951 William P. Higgins filed a complaint for partition of five of the ten lots.…