Wickes v. Walden

Mr. Presiding Justice

Holdom delivered the opinion of the court.

Assuming, for the purpose of this decision, that the testimony of appellant was admissible, still he failed to sustain the material averments of his bill by that quantum of proof which the law demands to entitle him to prevail. He sought to set aside the transactions with his father in relation to the stock, on the theory that his father acquired title to the stock for certain loans of money for which the stock was surrendered as collateral security, when, on the contrary, the clear weight of the evidence demonstrates that…