Steinke v. Sztanka

Appellants appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county setting aside, as a cloud on the title to certain real estate, a warranty deed and declaring a note for $500, and a trust deed to secure said note, void, as an ineffectual attempt to make a testatmentry disposition of property.

Teófila Sztanka, a Polish woman about seventy-five years of age, was the owner of the property in question, on which stood an apartment building. She had three children: appellants Stanislaw (Stanley) Sztanka and Theodora Ross, and appellee, William J. Steinke. In March, 1932, Mrs. Ross telephoned…