Jones v. Hodges

Appellant, Jones, appealed to the Supreme Court from a judgment of the circuit court of Macoupin county entered in favor of the appellee, Earl S. Hodges, on February 18, 1953. The cause was transferred to this court for the reason that no freehold was involved. (1 Ill.2d 415.)

In 1942 the appellant, Jones, entered into a verbal contract with the appellee, Hodges, by the terms of which the appellee was to institute suit in Macoupin county to set aside two deeds by which appellant’s wife, Dora Zelmer Jones, had purported to convey property located in Carlinville, Illinois and in Morton county,…