Keith v. Horner
Illinois Supreme Court
Wbit of Eeror to the Circuit Court of Clinton county; The Hon. Silas L. Bbyaet, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the Circuit Court by Henry H. Horner against Michael Keith and John Gedney, to enforce a vendor’s lien upon real estate, as the assignee of the vendor.
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Wbit of Eeror to the Circuit Court of Clinton county; The Hon. Silas L. Bbyaet, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the Circuit Court by Henry H. Horner against Michael Keith and John Gedney, to enforce a vendor’s lien upon real estate, as the assignee of the vendor. The bill sets out that, on the 23d day of May, 1859, said Gedney sold and conveyed to said Keith, a certain town lot, therein described, and in part payment therefor Keith executed and delivered to Gedney two promissory notes, of that date, for $233.33 each, one due in two years, and the other in two years…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
" The hill alleges that John Gedney, on the 23d of May, 1859, sold and conveyed to Michael Keith a town lot, in part payment for which he executed to Gedney two promissory notes, for two hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents each, due at twelve and eighteen months, with ten per cent, interest; that on the same day Gedney indorsed them to Horner; that one of the notes was due, and that both were unpaid, and that Keith and Gedney were insolvent. The bill prays that a vendor’s lien may be decreed and enforced against the lot, to the amount of the notes, and for a sale without…
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