Hill v. Bowen

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Brown County which found that appellant, Luemma Hill, had made a gift of certain real estate to Curtis E. Bowen and dismissed for want of equity her complaint to partition the same. Bowen died subsequent to the filing of the master’s report in the cause and it is the executor and devisees under his will, as substituted defendants and counterclaim-ants, who are the appellees in this court.

The facts which appear in the record show that Bowen was a lodger in the home of appellant’s parents at Mt. Sterling, Illinois, and, during 1944 and…