Bright v. Bright
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Tazewell county; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery exhibited in the court below by Alfred Bright against Kesia Bright, the widow, and Harvey Bright and others, the children and co-heirs at law, with the complainant, of Caleb Bright, deceased.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Tazewell county; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery exhibited in the court below by Alfred Bright against Kesia Bright, the widow, and Harvey Bright and others, the children and co-heirs at law, with the complainant, of Caleb Bright, deceased. The bill alleges, that, in February, A. D. 1861, Caleb Bright, father of complainant, was the owner in fee simple of the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section two, in township twenty-three north, of range three, west of the third principal meridian, and the west…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
This was a bill in chancery, brought by Alfred Bright, •against the co-heirs of his father, some of whom were infants, 'for the purpose of having vested in himself the legal title •of a tract of land, of which his father died seized. The bill alleges that the latter, in his life-time, made a parol promise to complainant to deed him the land, if complainant would take possession and improve it. A parol promise of this character would, undoubtedly, be enforced in a court of equity, if the •promisee, relying upon it, has entered and expended money. •It would substantially, in such event, be a…
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