Miles v. Wheeler
Illinois Supreme Court
Wbet of Ebbob to the Circuit Court of Monroe county; the Hon. Silas L. Bryan, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, instituted in the court helow by the defendants in error, the heirs at law of Amasa Wheeler, deceased, against the plaintiffs in error. The bill was filed for the purpose of setting aside a sale of land made by the administrator for the payment of debts, under an order of court; and an account of the rents and profits.
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Wbet of Ebbob to the Circuit Court of Monroe county; the Hon. Silas L. Bryan, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, instituted in the court helow by the defendants in error, the heirs at law of Amasa Wheeler, deceased, against the plaintiffs in error. The bill was filed for the purpose of setting aside a sale of land made by the administrator for the payment of debts, under an order of court; and an account of the rents and profits. Hpon the hearing of the case in the Circuit Court a decree was rendered, setting aside the sale, requiring the defendants to make a deed, etc. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Mi’. Justice Lawrence
delivered the opinion of the Court:
This was a bill in chancery, filed in April, 1861, by the heirs of Amasa Wheeler, for the purpose of setting aside a sale of land made by his administrator for the payment of debts, under an order of court. The facts material to the present case are as follows:
Amasa Wheeler, the father of the complainants below, defendants in error here, died in 1839, and Stephen W. Miles, senior, was appointed his administrator. In 1842 the latter obtained an order from the Circuit Court of' Monroe county for the sale of the land of the deceased, and in…
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