Johnson v. Johnson

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a decree of partition entered by the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

In June 1959 Minnie White Johnson and George Johnson, her husband, purchased, in joint tenancy, a two-flat building located at 2661 Warren Boulevard, Chicago. In 1966 George, unknown to Minnie, quit-claimed his interest in the building to his attorney who then reconveyed it in joint tenancy to George and Rosie Johnson, George’s daughter by a previous marriage.

Upon the death of George in the following year, Minnie…