Pesovic v. Pesovic

This was an ejectment suit by a father, the appellee Milic Pesovic, against his son, appellant Svetozar Pesovic, in which Milic sought to evict Svetozar, his wife and their three minor children from a house in Chicago. In an answer that evinced a bitter family dispute, Svetozar interposed the defense that Milic had either made a contract to convey the house to him or had given him the house as an oral gift of land. After hearing Milic’s testimony, that of Branka, Svetozar’s wife, and receiving exhibits of the parties, the trial court ruled that Milic was owner of the house; that he had not…