Alsop v. McArthur

Citations

• 76 Ill. 20

Syllabus

<p>Trust — note taken payable to wife. Where the husband, his wife having separate property, sold his land, the wife claiming no dower or homestead, and the wife refused to execute the deed unless one of the notes of §1000, given for the purchase money, was made payable to her, which was done, under an agreement that she was to have the interest on the same during her life for support, and the principal sum to remain the property of the husband, and on payment of the note, the wife loaned the same, taking the note and security, of the borrower in her name, and afterwards, by will, bequeathed this last note to her daughter by a former husband, it was Tield, on bill by'the husband, filed, after his wife’s death, against the executor and legatee, for the surrender of the note to him, that he was entitled to the relief sought, and that the loaning of the money by the wife, and taking the note in her name, did not change or affect his right to the same;</p>