Fish v. Cleland
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. D. M. Woodson, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery by Cleland and wife to set aside a conveyance and to secure the annual interest upon the proceeds of certain real estate in Jacksonville, in which Mrs. Cleland formerly held an estate for her life, but which life estate had been sold and conveyed by her and her husband to the appellant, William T. Fish, and the property subsequently sold under the decree of…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. D. M. Woodson, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery by Cleland and wife to set aside a conveyance and to secure the annual interest upon the proceeds of certain real estate in Jacksonville, in which Mrs. Cleland formerly held an estate for her life, but which life estate had been sold and conveyed by her and her husband to the appellant, William T. Fish, and the property subsequently sold under the decree of the court in partition. Fraud, alleged to have been practiced by Fish in the purchase of the life estate, is the sole…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beckwith
The appellees filed a bill in chancery to set aside a sale made by them to the appellant of a life estate in a town lot in Jacksonville, on the ground of fraud. The specific allegations on which relief is sought are: First. That the parties owning the remainder, held a meeting at Jacksonville, at which the appellant represented his wife, one of the owners, when it was concluded by them to file a bill in chancery for a partition of the property, and in order to facilitate the same it was deemed expedient to buy the life estate of Mrs. Oleland on joint account, at the price of $2,600 to $2,800,…
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