Slocum v. Slocum
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Livingston county; the Hon. Franklin Blades, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtLacey, P. J.
The plaintiff in error is the wife of Oliver Slocnrn. She charges in her bill that she was the owner and possessor of certain moneys in her own right, and that she entrusted the same to the care and custody of her husband, to purchase a homestead for her. That her husband, instead of carrying out her instructions, used the money to purchase a homestead, being certain lots in the town of Dwight, in Livingston Co., the property in controversy, and took a deed therefor in his own name, and has held the title ever since, against her wishes, refusing to convey it to her.
That in April, A, D. 1878,…
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