Rountree v. Smith

In 1885 appellee resided upon a twenty-acre tract of land which she owned, near the city of Waukegan. Appellants, husband and wife, were teachers of elocution in Chicago. They took rooms in appellee’s residence, in which they spent the month of August of that year. The summers of 1886 and 1887 they also spent at her home, she and they living as one family. About the first of September, 1887, Mrs. Smith made a trip to her native town in the east, being absent several weeks. She spent the winter with appellants at their rooms in Chicago, and thereafter, to and including the summer of 1891, she…