Jones v. Miller
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of De Kalb county; the Hon. Theodore D. Murphy, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed in the court below by the appellant against the appellee and Charles D. Boynton, John Lloyd, Catharine R. Lloyd, and Samuel Boynton, to charge certain real estate with the payment of a note for $4,200, given by Lloyd to appellant as the purchase price upon a sale of the same by him to Lloyd. The facts in the case are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
The facts in this case, as nearly as they can be ascertained from the somewhat unsatisfactory evidence contained in the record, are as follows:
Jones was the owner of a half section of land in De Kalb county, worth about twenty dollars per acre, and incumbered by deeds of trust in favor of one Boynton. The land was sold under the deeds of trust, and Boynton became the purchaser. He was nevertheless willing to let Jones redeem, and on the 28th of June, 1859, an account was stated between them, and the indebtedness agreed upon at $1,425. The land was also incumbered by a deed of trust to Hannah…
2Cited by1 opinion
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