Hunt v. Hawes

Helen E. D. Hawes, appellee, filed her bill in the court below for the specific performance of a contract made with appellant for the sale and purchase of lot 25 in Dun-ham’s subdivision, in Cook county, Illinois. The defense was that the complainant could not comply with the terms of the contract on her part by conveying a good title. It was stipulated that the title to the lot was good in John H. Dunham, the father of appellee, at the time of his decease, and that whatever power or authority she had to sell and convey she derived under the provisions of his will. Whether or not she had such…