Garland v. Wells

Lake, Cel J.

This case comes here by appeal from the district court for Lancaster county dismissing the plaintiff’s petition. The case was there heard on its merits.

The action was brought by Abigail D. Smith, now deceased (afterwards revived in name of Julia A. Garland), to have a chain of nominal conveyances of a tract of land from her to the defendant McMurtry set aside, and the legal title thereto confirmed in herself.

*299This relief was sought on the ground, as set out in the petition, that in the year 1872, said Smith then living in Quincy, Illinois, having intrusted the sale of the land to…