Phelps v. Pratt
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. The appellee filed his bill in the superior court of Cook county October 27, 1904, praying that two deeds which he signed as grantor, and in which his children, Clayton A. Pratt, Rodney K. Pratt and Elizabeth C. Phelps, are named as grantees, be canceled and set aside as a cloud upon the title to the property therein described, on the ground that • the said deeds were never legally…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. The appellee filed his bill in the superior court of Cook county October 27, 1904, praying that two deeds which he signed as grantor, and in which his children, Clayton A. Pratt, Rodney K. Pratt and Elizabeth C. Phelps, are named as grantees, be canceled and set aside as a cloud upon the title to the property therein described, on the ground that • the said deeds were never legally delivered. The trial court, in a decree entered July 6, 1905, found that the two deeds were filed for record without the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
It appears from the evidence that in October, 1903, Lorenzo Pratt, then seventy-seven years of age, having been advised by his physician that he had not long to live, signed and acknowledged two deeds, in each of which his three children were the grantees of certain property of considerable value in Cook county, including a large number of lots in Morgan Park, about twenty-five acres of unimproved property, and an apartment building in Chicago. These deeds were handed by appellee to his son Rodney K. Pratt, one on October 22, 1903, and the other on October 28, 1903. Appellee testified that…
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