Wharf v. Wharf

In March, 1911, the appellant, Eugene C. Wharf, and James E. Wharf, his father, formed a partnership for the purchase of real estate to be improved and sold for their mutual profit. They purchased 46.24 acres of land on Milwaukee avenue, in Jefferson Park, Chicago, for the purpose of platting it, laying it out in lots, blocks, streets and alleys, making improvements and constructing dwelling houses on some of the lots and making sales. They laid out and platted the land in a subdivision called Sunnyside addition to Jefferson Park. Each paid in money aggregating $36,018.57. They constructed a…