Griffin v. Haskins

On the 5th day of February, 1881, Herbert Smith, being the owner and in possession of certain lots and the store and dwelling house thereon, in Loda, Iroquois County, Illinois, executed a conveyance of the premises to Charles K. Haskins. At the same time, and in exchange therefor, Has-kins made a deed to Smith purporting to convey a section of land in Missouri. In this transaction Smith acted upon the faith of an affidavit made by Haskins and a pretended abstract of title, which afterward turned out to be wholly false and fraudulent and signed by a fictitious name. At the date of these deeds…