Terhune v. Commercial National Safe Deposit Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Cook county dismissing for want of equity a bill filed by Elizabeth Terhune against the Commercial National Safe Deposit Company, Rivers McNeill, Thomas H. McNeill and Ellen M. Crudup, in which the appellant prayed for the cancellation of a lease as a cloud upon her title, for an injunction, and other relief.

The theory of the bill is that the appellant is lawfully seized in fee of an undivided one-fourth of one-eighth interest in certain real estate in remainder, the possession of which is postponed until the death of Flora Caruthers,…