Stewart v. O'BRYAN

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE CRAVEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff sued her former husband seeking reformation of a 1954 deed to him as sole owner of the property in question or the imposition of either a constructive or resulting trust. The trial court dismissed those counts of the complaint seeking to impose a trust but granted relief in equity by directing the reformation of the deed to reflect title in plaintiff and defendant as joint tenants.-Defendant appeals.

The parties were married in 1949, when defendant was engaged in the implement business in Lovington, Illinois. In 1954,…