Hanley v. Hanley

This action was brought in the circuit court of McLean County by Marie B. Hanley, plaintiff, to eject her husband, Edward V. Hanley, defendant, from an 80-acre farm they had occupied as husband and wife prior to their separation in 1955, and for an accounting of profits received by the defendant therefrom. In answer to the complaint, defendant admitted that record title to the farm property was taken in the plaintiff’s name in 1936 and had so remained. However, he alleged by way of affirmative defense that this was done “as a matter of convenience” because he was then “plagued by many…