Coari v. Olsen
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. W. Far well, Judge, presiding. . Bill was filed by Samuel Olsen, in the court below, against Antonio Coari, Ebeuezer Wakeley and Angelo Crescio, for the cancellation of a deed executed by Wakeley to Coari and a mortgage executed by Coari to Crescio, and for conveyance of- title, to Olsen.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. W. Far well, Judge, presiding. . Bill was filed by Samuel Olsen, in the court below, against Antonio Coari, Ebeuezer Wakeley and Angelo Crescio, for the cancellation of a deed executed by Wakeley to Coari and a mortgage executed by Coari to Crescio, and for conveyance of- title, to Olsen. It is alleged, in substance, that complainant purchased the premises, a lot in the city of Chicago, in 1849, and in 1850 erected thereon a house, in which he lived until about the 15th of August, 1874, when he was induced by one Peter Nelson to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The most important questions presented by this record are of fact. They are, first, was the contract between Wakeley and Olsen, for the reconveyance of the property, actually made, as it purports to have been, on the 28th of November, 1874, or was it made subsequent to the conveyance by Wakeley to Coari, and ante-dated. Second, if that contract was, in fact, made on the 28th of November, 1874, is Olsen estopped from claiming under it, as against Coari.
The evidence is somewhat voluminous, and, on most points, directly contradictory; and, since it can subserve no useful purpose to reproduce it…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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