Jones v. Washington

Josephine Jones and her daughters, Evelyn and Gertrude, instituted this suit on December 12, 1949, against Genoa S. Washington, in the circuit court of Cook County, to set aside three deeds severally made, by which they conveyed to Washington their interests in a hotel property in the city of Chicago. The complaint also asked for an accounting of the rents and profits during Washington’s occupancy and management of the property and prayed that a lease made to Washington by Josephine and her husband, Junius, during the latter’s lifetime, be declared void. The trial court entered a decree…