Goodkind v. Bartlett

This was a bill in chancery, in the circuit court of Cook county, to. compel the. specific performance by appellee of a contract "for the purchase from appellant of certain land, the consideration therein named to be paid by appellee if the title thereto, upon abstracts to be furnished, etc., was “found good, and free from all inchoate right or rights of dower.” The bill alleges the terms and conditions of said contract, the payment thereunder of $500 in cash by appellee, the chain of title, and the furnishing of abstracts thereof accordingly, the readiness of complainant and refusal of…