Legal Opinion

Bolton v. Huling

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided October 10, 1900Published

Assumpsit, on a contract for the sale of lands. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1899.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Horton

This is an action in assumpsit brought by appellees, composing the firm of E. O. Huling & Oompa.ny, to recover from appellant damages for breach of contract for the sale of certain lots of land in the city of Chicago. January 22, 1890, appellees made a proposition in writing to appellant, which, with the acceptance by appellant indorsed thereon, was as follows, viz :

“We will give $37.50 per foot, cash, for lots 21 and 22, in block 4, Davidson’s Sub. of lots 7, 8 and part of 12, of Wilson, Heald and Stebbing’s Sub. of the east ½ of the S. W. ¼ Sec. 15, T. 38 N., R. 14, being the 3d and 4th…

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