Conley v. Petersen

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Grundy County dismissing, for want of equity, the complaint for partition brought by the appellants. There is a freehold involved.

On September 8, 1944, Caroline Slot, the owner of 160 acres of farm land in Grundy County, conveyed the land to Florence O. Curtis who immediately transferred it by deed in trust to “Caroline Slot, as Trustee, under the provisions of a Trust Agreement dated September 8, 1944 and known as Trust Number One.” Both deeds were, recorded in the office of the recorder of Grundy County on September 9, 1944. Trust…