Green v. Gawne

This was a proceeding in equity for partition and comes to this court from the superior court of Cook county on a direct appeal from a decree approving the master’s report and dismissing the action at plaintiffs’ cost. The subject matter of the suit is a number of parcels of real estate which the plaintiffs and their brother, Thomas J. Gawne, and his wife conveyed by deed in trust to James D. Green and Helga L. M. Gawne, as trustees, under a trust agreement dated May 3, 1933, together with other parcels subsequently added to the trust.

The complaint alleged that appellants and their brother,…