McLean v. Clapp
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL, FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. In equity. Decree dismissing, the bill. The plaintiffs appealed. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justsce Brewee
delivered the opinion of the court.
In December, 1855, Edwin W. McLean, owning a store and stock of goods in Amboy, Illinois, sold the same to Buggies W. Clapp, in payment for which he' received four notes, amounting in the aggregate to five thousand nine hundred and eighteen and six-ty-six one-hundredths dollars, drawing ten per cent interest, and secured by mortgage on four hundred and -'eighty acres of land. The first of these notes, for five hundred dollars, due in twenty-five days, was paid; the others were not. The. last of the notes became due in May, 1857. Soon…
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