Stough v. Brach

A freehold being involved, this is a direct appeal by the plaintiff-appellant from a decree of the superior court of Cook county dismissing for want of equity count III of her amended complaint and from an order previously entered granting the defendant’s motion to strike counts I and II of the amended complaint.

The appellant and appellee were formerly husband and wife and at the time of their separation, in 1931, a property settlement involving a trust agreement was entered into by them. Under this agreement the income from approximately $1,000,000 of personal property, together with the use…