Fowler v. Black
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon, George W. Stipp, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, brought in the Circuit Court of LaSalle county, by Chase Fowler, assignee of Alonzo S. Black, an insolvent, to obtain a construction of a certain deed executed by Samuel Black and Clarinda Black, his wife, to Alonzo-S. Black, purporting to convey to the grantee an estate in certain lands therein described, and also to remove a cloud from, the title to…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon, George W. Stipp, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, brought in the Circuit Court of LaSalle county, by Chase Fowler, assignee of Alonzo S. Black, an insolvent, to obtain a construction of a certain deed executed by Samuel Black and Clarinda Black, his wife, to Alonzo-S. Black, purporting to convey to the grantee an estate in certain lands therein described, and also to remove a cloud from, the title to said land. The bill alleges that Alonzo S. Black, on the 13th day of September, 1889, executed and delivered to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
The record in this case presents two principal questions: 1. Whether, by a proper construction of the deed of June 30, 1875, from Samuel Black and wife to Alonzo S. Black, as the same was executed, the children of Alonzo S. Black can be held to have taken the remainder in the land conveyed, after the preceding life estates, in fee, as purchasers. 2. If such construction is inadmissible whether the case made by the pleadings -and proofs warranted the court in decreeing the reformation of said deed in such manner as to give it that effect.
It is clear that these two questions depend upon quite…
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