Sanford v. Emory
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Whiteside county; the Hon. W. W. Heaton, Judge, presiding. On the 14th of February, 1856, Samuel J. Emory purchased from Charles D. Sanford, certain town lots in the town of Round Grove, for the sum of two hundred dollars, to be paid in certain installments. The contract was reduced to writing, in which it was stipulated when Sanford was to convey the lots, and at what times the money should be paid.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Whiteside county; the Hon. W. W. Heaton, Judge, presiding. On the 14th of February, 1856, Samuel J. Emory purchased from Charles D. Sanford, certain town lots in the town of Round Grove, for the sum of two hundred dollars, to be paid in certain installments. The contract was reduced to writing, in which it was stipulated when Sanford was to convey the lots, and at what times the money should be paid. Emory having died without making payment, Sanford filed the written agreement in the county court of Whiteside county as a claim against the estate of Emory.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
Defendants’ intestate agreed, on the 14th day of February, 1856, with the plaintiff in error as follows:
Article of agreement made this 14th day of February, 1856, between O. D. Sanford as agent for the sale of town lots, in the town of Round Grove, Whiteside county, and State of Illinois, of the first part, and Samuel Emory, of the county and state above written, of the second part, witnesseth: That the party of the first part does hereby agree to sell unto the second party the following town lot, in said town of Round Grove, known and numbered as follows: Lot two (2) in block fourteen. (14)…
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