Coppens v. Coppens

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Rock Island county ordering the partition of real estate improved by ,a dwelling house containing three apartments and removing as a. cloud upon the title a certain agreement regarding said premises, dated September 11, 1936, signed by the plaintiff and two of the defendants, by the terms of which the defendants were to have, rent free, one apartment as long as they should live and were to pay one half of the upkeep of the premises, and by which agreement plaintiff agreed to bequeath to these defendants or their heirs this property.

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