Maginn v. Bassford

This was a bill in the superior court of Cook county to set aside, or redeem from, two conveyances of a patent right issued to plaintiff in error by the United States, which conveyances he claimed were in the nature of mortgages. Upon a hearing the court held the first conveyance to be an absolute conveyance of all rights of plaintiff in error in the patent to Bassford, and dismissed the bill for want of equity. From this decree this writ of error was sued out and the record brought to this court on the ground that the determination of the cause involved a franchise.

Defendants in error insist…