Hollenbeck v. Hollenbeck

Abram Hollenbeck died intestate on October io, 1854, leaving him surviving Jane A. Hollenbeck, his widow, and George, William, Albert, Reuben and James Hollenbeck, his sons and sole heirs-at-law, seized in fee simple of the east half of the north-east quarter of section 18, township 32, range 6, Grundy county, Illinois. Jane A. Hollenbeck married William H. Curtis in 1861 and died in 1891. The family remained in possession of said premises until some time after the mother married Curtis, when she left the farm, and William Hollenbeck, who was a cripple, married and commenced to acquire the…