Pratt v. Kerns
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of assumpsit. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Start County; the Hon. Theodore N. Green, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Pbesiding Justice Vichees
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Stark County in favor of Kerns & Fling and against Peter E. Pratt for $50t) for attorney’s fees. Peter Pratt, Sr., the grandfather of appellant, devised eighty-six acres of land in Stark County to his son, Isaiah Pratt, for his natural life with the remainder to his children- if any survived him. In 1896 the life tenant failed to pay the taxes and the land was sold to Harry A. Hammond for the unpaid taxes of 1895. Isaiah Pratt made an effort to redeem, but was apparently…
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