Standard Trust & Savings Bank v. Carlson

This appeal is prosecuted to review a decree of the superior court of Cook county denying the relief prayed in a bill filed by appellant to declare it to have title, as trustee under the will of John A. W. Eernow, Sr., deceased, to an undivided one-half interest in certain lands in Cook county, and granting the prayer of the cross-bill of appellee John A. W. Eernow, Jr., and decreeing that he is the owner of the undivided one-half interest in said lands.

The facts material to a decision of this case are the following: In January, 1920, Dr. John A. W. Fernow, Sr., and Androv Carlson, purchased…