Schweickhardt v. Chessen

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Madison county granting the relief prayed in the cross-bill filed by appellee James IT. Chessen on a certain contract hereinafter set out and dismissing appellant’s original bill praying reformation of the contract and cancellation of certain other purported contracts as to certain property therein described and for an accounting and general relief.

Appellant, then Lena McIntosh, was the owner of sixty acres of land adjacent to or within the village of Wood River. On October 22, 1917, she entered into the following contract with Chessen:

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