Russell v. Peyton
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. S. M. Moore, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtBailey, P. J.
Cornelian P. Bussell, the plaintiff in error, exhibited in the court below his bill in chancery against the defendants in error, as lieirs-at-law of one Francis Peyton, deceased, to compel the conveyance from them to him of the west half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-nine, township thirty-seven, range fourteen, in Cook county, Illinois. The bill is based upon an instrument in the nature of a declaration of trust, bearing date June 10, 1837, executed by said Francis Peyton to Cornelia Bussell, the complainant’s mother. By said instrument said Peyton, after reciting that John B. F.…
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- Jewett v. . MillerNew York Court of Appeals · 1852
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- King v. CushmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1866
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