Stow v. Russell
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Manierre, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the court below, by William H. Stow against the representatives of Samuel Russell, deceased, to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of certain real estate in the city of Chicago, entered into by said Russell, in his lifetime, with the complainant.
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Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Manierre, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the court below, by William H. Stow against the representatives of Samuel Russell, deceased, to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of certain real estate in the city of Chicago, entered into by said Russell, in his lifetime, with the complainant. A demurrer was interposed to the bill, which was sustained and the bill dismissed. The complainant brings the case to this court for review on writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
Samuel Eussell, of Middletown, Connecticut, being the owner of lot nine, in block twenty-eight, in the original town of Chicago, “ sometime in 1846 or 1847 ” made a contract in writing with the plaintiff, Stow, by which he agreed to sell to him this lot, for the sum of “six or seven thousand dollars.” Of this sum one thousand dollars was paid down, and the balance was to be paid in equal annual installments, with interest at six per cent.
On the execution of the contract, the plaintiff took possession of the lot, and made valuable improvements on it at a cost of several thousand dollars, and…
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