Hutchinson v. Bambas

The plaintiff in error, Ella M. Hutchinson, filed her bill in the superior court of Cook county against the defendant in error, James F. Bambas, praying the court to set aside a conveyance by her to him of thirty-six lots in the city of Chicago, which she charged was obtained by fraud and undue influence while he sustained a fiduciary relation to her. She offered to return the consideration, and prayed for an adjustment of the accounts between them arising out of taxes and other charges against the lots paid by him and a mortgage on the lots which he had executed. She had sold one of the lots…