Lawson v. Lawson

This was a suit in equity, brought in the circuit court of Cook county, by John Lawson, against his two sons, Louis and Peter, as heirs of Ann Lawson, their deceased mother, to recover certain real estate alleged to be held in trust by the defendants for the complainant. The court below, on the hearing, entered a decree dismissing the bill for want of equity, and the present appeal is from that decree.

The case made by the bill is, in substance, this : The record of the title to the property was destroyed by fire in 1873. After this fire and during that year, the complainant, being the…