Huggins v. Rider
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macoupin county; the Hon. Charles S. Zane, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, by Simeon Rider against Philander C. Huggins.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Macoupin county; the Hon. Charles S. Zane, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, by Simeon Rider against Philander C. Huggins. The bill charges that Rider and Huggins were joint trustees for the sale and disposal of lands and town lots on the line of the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad ; that Rider and Huggins charged their cestas que trust for their services as such trustees five per cent on all moneys collected by them from the sale of lands and town lots, and also five per cent for selling the same. The bill also showed the making several accounts,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
It appears that the parties to this suit, with a number of other persons, were the owners of certain lands along the line of the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad, the legal title to which was. in the parties to this suit. Being desirous of laying the lands off into towns, and selling and disposing of the lots when platted, the owners entered into an agreement by which the parties litigant wore constituted trustees to lay off the towns, and to sell and dispose of the town lots and grounds as they should deem for the best interest of the company, or as a majority thereof or the survivors might…
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