Holmes v. Holmes
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. Benjamin B. Sheldon, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, instituted, by the appellee in the court below, against the appellant, to obtain the conveyance from appellant and wife of the legal title to the east half of the north-west quarter of section 26, T. 26, B. 10, E. of the 4th P. M., in Winnebago county, Illinois, upon the ground that appellant held the legal title to the same, as trustee for the use…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. Benjamin B. Sheldon, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, instituted, by the appellee in the court below, against the appellant, to obtain the conveyance from appellant and wife of the legal title to the east half of the north-west quarter of section 26, T. 26, B. 10, E. of the 4th P. M., in Winnebago county, Illinois, upon the ground that appellant held the legal title to the same, as trustee for the use and benefit of appellee. The further facts in this case are fully stated in the opinion. The court below entered a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
It appears, from the evidence in this case, that appellant, in April 1849, entered in his own name, at the land office in Dixon, with a land warrant, the premises in controversy. It appears that he was a minor at the time of the entry, but that he had by his own labor earned the warrant with which the land was purchased. Also, that in 1847, appellant had worked two months for Smith, and nine months in 1848, for which Smith was to pay him $100, with which it was agreed that a land warrant should be purchased, and appellee to pay whatever that sum might lack in paying for it, and with it the…
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