Jackson v. Miner
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Ttjlby, Judge, presiding. This is a proceeding in chancery, instituted by Miner and others, constituting a mercantile firm of Boston, as creditors of Eli D. Terry, deceased, to set aside certain deeds made by Terry and his wife, during his life, to Caroline A. Jackson, the appellant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Ttjlby, Judge, presiding. This is a proceeding in chancery, instituted by Miner and others, constituting a mercantile firm of Boston, as creditors of Eli D. Terry, deceased, to set aside certain deeds made by Terry and his wife, during his life, to Caroline A. Jackson, the appellant. The first deed called in question is a conveyance of a lot and dwelling house known as 1393 Indiana avenue, in Chicago, alleged to have been made about December 21, 1871. The second is a conveyance of a house and lot in Chicago known as 134 Paulina…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dickey
Eli D. Terry, on the first of January, 1870, was a married man, living at Park Eidge, a village of some 400 to 600 inhabitants, located some ten or twelve miles north-west from Chicago, and was the proprietor of one of the largest clothing stores in the city of Chicago, keeping on hand usually a stock of goods of the value of about f 50,000, and apparently doing a very successful business. His wife was an invalid; and though they had lived there nearly a year, his wife was, during that time, confined to the house, and so continued until some time in the spring of 1870. In March, 1871, he…
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