Wenegar v. Bollenbach
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Frank D. Ramsay, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed by the appellant against the appellee for the purpose of setting aside a quit-claim deed, executed by the appellant to the appellee on or about September 6, 1897. The original bill was filed on February 2, 1898, and the amended bill on May 31, 1898. By the quit-claim deed in question appellant conveyed to appellee his interest in a farm of one hundred and sixty…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Frank D. Ramsay, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed by the appellant against the appellee for the purpose of setting aside a quit-claim deed, executed by the appellant to the appellee on or about September 6, 1897. The original bill was filed on February 2, 1898, and the amended bill on May 31, 1898. By the quit-claim deed in question appellant conveyed to appellee his interest in a farm of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Henry county, Illinois. The ground, upon which it was soug'ht to set aside the deed, was that the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The appellant and the appellee are first cousins, the deceased father of the appellant having been a brother of the appellee’s mother. Appellant, at the time of the transaction herein narrated, was only twenty-two years old, and was a carpenter by trade, living* at Palatine in the county of Cook. His aunt, Mrs. Weiskopf, lived, at the time of her death, in Henry county near a place called Hoop Pole. Her nephew, the appellee, bad lived in Henry county, and had worked on his aunt’s farm there, and knew its value. Charles Bollenbach lived at Long* Grove in Cook county, Illinois.
On September…
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