Jones v. Jones

The appellant, Mary A. Jones, and the appellee Ernest H. Jones, were married on February 8, 1915, having been engaged since the previous September. He was a widower, living with his daughter, Edith I. Carey, and her husband, in a house in Chicago in which he and his former wife had lived, the legal title to which was in them as joint tenants. The daughter, who was living at home unmarried at the time of the purchase of the premises, contributed from her own means $1200 to the purchase price, $4200, and it had been agreed that she should have one-fourth interest in the property. After the…