Christie v. Hale
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of He Kalb county; the Hon. Theodore H. Murphy, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Thomas Hale, the defendant in error, in the He Kalb Circuit Court, to restrain the sheriff of that county from • selling certain lands under an execution. Answers and replications being filed, and the cause coming on for hearing, a decree was rendered setting aside the levy, &c., and making the injunction perpetual.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of He Kalb county; the Hon. Theodore H. Murphy, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Thomas Hale, the defendant in error, in the He Kalb Circuit Court, to restrain the sheriff of that county from • selling certain lands under an execution. Answers and replications being filed, and the cause coming on for hearing, a decree was rendered setting aside the levy, &c., and making the injunction perpetual. The case was brought to this court by a writ of error. The facts fully appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
This was a bill in chancery, filed by Thomas Hale, - in the De Kalb Circuit Court, against Harman K. Wells, Jonathan L. Christie, John H. Ball, James L. Ball, Baldwin Woodruff and Bichard B. Woodruff, to restrain the sheriff from selling the land in controversy, under an execution in his hands. It appears, that on the 29th of January, 1854, James L. Ball conveyed one hundred and sixty acres - of land, situated in He Kalb county, to Thomas Hale, to secure the payment of indebtedness then existing, or which might afterwards accrue, from Ball and his brother, who were in business, to Hale. This…
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