Prickett v. Prickett

Rebecca Prickett filed her complaint in equity in the circuit court of Cook county, seeking a reconveyance of certain real estate and an accounting for an increase of $500 in a loan made against the property. The chancellor, in affirming the findings of the master, ordered a re-conveyance of the real estate in litigation, ordered the appellants to account to appellee for all rents collected and the increase of the mortgage indebtedness from $1500 to $2000.

The facts as recited in the chancellor’s decree are as follows: On January 2, 1935, Rebecca Prickett and her husband, Fred, were owners in…