Bishop v. Newton
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a proceeding in chancery; the bill states that on the 29th day of September, A. D. 1855, the complainant and defendant Newton entered into the following agreement: Know all Men by these Presents, That Levi Newton, of the county of Kane, and State of Illinois, is held and firmly bound unto William W. Bishop, of the county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, party of the second part, in the penal sum of eighteen thousand dollars, to be paid unto the said party…
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This was a proceeding in chancery; the bill states that on the 29th day of September, A. D. 1855, the complainant and defendant Newton entered into the following agreement: Know all Men by these Presents, That Levi Newton, of the county of Kane, and State of Illinois, is held and firmly bound unto William W. Bishop, of the county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, party of the second part, in the penal sum of eighteen thousand dollars, to be paid unto the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, and administrators and assigns, to which payment well and truly to be made, I…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was a bill in chancery, filed by complainant against defendants, for ‘the specific performance of a contract entered into between complainant and defendant Newton, on the 29th day of September, 1855. By the agreement, Newton sold to Bishop several tracts of land, for the sum of twelve thousand dollars. Bishop, at the time of the sale and the entering into the written agreement, paid to Newton one thousand dollars, and agreed to pay him two thousand more on the first first day of January, 1856, and to assume and pay a mortgage on the lands for nine thousand dollars, except the interest,…
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