Huff v. State Bank & Trust Co.

Appellant, Frances Huff, brought suit in the circuit court of Cook County to construe a will devising real estate to her. The master recommended dismissal of her complaint for want of equity, and her exceptions to the master’s report were subsequently overruled by the circuit court and the cause was dismissed for “want of equity. The appeal is direct to this court because a freehold interest is involved.

In June, 1938, Daisy Sandidge, the testatrix, acquired title to lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 in' block 1 of Culver’s addition to the city of Evanston, which fronted on Dodge Avenue. At the time title…