Hyde Park Thomson-Houston Light Co. v. Brown

The statement of facts and the opinion of the Appellate Court for the First District, by Waterman, J., are as follows:

“On June 24,1890, for the consideration of $20,000, Esther L. Brown sold and transferred to James W. Johnson lots 12 and 13, in block 17, in Hyde Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, the area covered by said two lots having a south frontage on Fifty-third street, next east of and adjoining the right of way of the Illinois Central railroad. At the time of the conveyance Johnson paid on account of the purchase price the sum of $7333.34 and gave to Mrs. Brown his…