Cassell v. Ross
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Fulton county, the Hon. C. L. Hig-bee, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the court below by Daniel Cassell against Harvey L. Ross and Ezra Dilworth.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Fulton county, the Hon. C. L. Hig-bee, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery instituted in the court below by Daniel Cassell against Harvey L. Ross and Ezra Dilworth. It is stated in the bill that in September, 1852, the complain-, ant, Cassell, purchased from the defendant Ross, a certain tract of land described as the southeast quarter of section seven, in township number three, north of range one, east of the fourth principal meridian, situate in Fulton county, for the sum of $550, a portion of which amount having been paid, Ross and wife, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walkee
The purchase of the outstanding title seems to have formed a part of the consideration of the debt secured by the deed of trust. The bill alleges that it formed the consideration of that entire debt, but the answer sets up the fact, that one hundred, of the two hundred dollars, which appellant had agreed to pay towards the purchase of the outstanding title, had not been paid. That for the hundred dollars first falling due, appellant had given his two notes of fifty-three dollars each to appellee Ross. That one of these notes had been paid, and that appellee Ross had assigned and transferred…
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