Washington and Turner v. Ogden
Supreme Court of the United States
. Writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. This suit was originally brought in the Superior Court of Cook county, Illinois, but removed thence to the E,ederal Circuit Court upon the petition of the defendants and proof that they were both citizens of Virginia, while the plaintiff was a citizen of Illinois. •The plaintiff filed his declaration in debt, claiming a right to recover the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars,…
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. Writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. This suit was originally brought in the Superior Court of Cook county, Illinois, but removed thence to the E,ederal Circuit Court upon the petition of the defendants and proof that they were both citizens of Virginia, while the plaintiff was a citizen of Illinois. •The plaintiff filed his declaration in debt, claiming a right to recover the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, being the amount payable and due on the paper copied by Mr. Justice Grier in his opinion, with interest thereon from the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The very numerous exceptions to the sufficiency of the pleadings, and the-correctness of the instructions given by the court, all depend on the construction given to the covenants of the agreement, which.is the foundation of the suit. It is in the following words: .
“ Chicago, June 20, 1859.
“We will give M. D. Ogden, trustee Chicago Land Company, sixty-seven thousand and five hundred dollars for the property described in the John S. Wright' contract with the trustees of the Chicago Land Company, dated June 4, 1855, or thereabouts, and pay for the same as follows: thirty-five thousand in cash…
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