Towle v. Wadsworth

This was a bill in chancery, brought by James Wadsworth against John R. Towle, in which the complainant claims to be the equitable owner of an undivided one-half of certain lots of land in the city of Chicago, the legal title to which is in the defendant, and praying for a conveyance of the legal title, for an accounting and partition, and for an injunction restraining the defendant from prosecuting certain actions of ejectment and of forcible detainer brought to obtain possession of the premises, and certain actions for rents claimed to be due from the complainant. The defendant answered…