Oxley v. Storer

This was an action of debt, brought by appellants in the Marion circuit court, against appellee, on a bond with a condition. The bond was executed by Cory & Storer, in the penal sum of $5000, conditioned that the obligors would discharge a deed of trust for over $7000, given by Cory to one William W. Howell, to the use of the Illinois Railroad Company, on a large quantity of lands, of which Cory and wife Had previously sold to appellants two hundred and fifty acres, for the sum of $5000— or, if they failed to discharge the same, they should pay the $5000, the purchase money aforesaid, with…