Kingsbury v. Buckner
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Thornton*
delivered the opinion of the Court":
This case was before the court at a former term. As we shall not go behind the decision then made, it is necessary to understand it. The cross-bill of the Buckners, upon which the decision was based, was for the purpose of having a trust declared, a reconveyance of real estate, and a partition. The court then decided that the deed from Mary K. Buckner and husband to her brother, was not originally properly delivered, to be effectual, but that it became operative by the subsequent acts and declarations of the parties; that there was an…
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