Hicks v. Chapin

Citations

• 67 Ill. 236

Syllabus

<p>Partition—sufficiency of evidence of title. In a proceeding for partition against parties in possession claiming title to the whole, where the answer expressly denied that the petitioner had any title or interest in the premises, the only evidence was contained in the master’s report of the oral statements of a witness as to the title of each of the parties, which was corroborated by the master’s report as to his examination of the record, there being no documentary evidence whatever: Held,, that the evidence was wholly incompetent and insufficient to support a decree in favor of the petitioner, under the issues.</p>