Arnold v. Baker

Certain heirs of Estella I. Baker, who died in 1957, filed an action in the circuit court of Grundy County to partition a farm. Defendants Phyllis and Louis Groll, to whom she had devised the farm by her will, filed a motion to dismiss the suit. The motion was denied, and a decree of partition was entered finding ownership as alleged in the second amended complaint as amended. The defendants Groll, together with other defendants claiming an interest in the premises, appeal directly to this court. A freehold is involved.

The decedent acquired her title by deed from her father in 1908. One of…