Murphy v. Nilles
Appellate Court of Illinois
Creditor’s Bill.—Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1895. Statement of the Case. This is a creditor’s bill which seeks to reach property, the legal title to which is in the name of Lizzie M. Murphy, wife of John C. Murphy, the object of the bill being to subject such property to judgments against Mr. Murphy.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waterman
It appeared in this case that Mrs. Lizzie Murphy having $1,000 in money, allowed her husband to use the same speculating in jury warrants, that thereby he made a profit of $2,000, and the $3,000 was invested in the purchase of certain lots, the title to which was taken and stands in the name of Mrs. Murphy.
Upon a final hearing the court found that the $2,000 profits was the property of Mr. Murphy, and that Mrs. Lizzie Murphy and Mr. John Murphy, wife and husband, were tenants in common of the real property purchased with the said $8,000, and that to the extent of an undivided two-thirds of…
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