Sloane v. Wells
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— Feard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook •county; the Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Judge, presiding. This is a bill to cancel and set aside an agreement for the sale of real estate.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— Feard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook •county; the Hon. Oliver H. Horton, Judge, presiding. This is a bill to cancel and set aside an agreement for the sale of real estate. The. allegations of the bill are as follows: “Humbly complaining, shows unto your Honors your orator, William Douglas Sloane, that he now is the owner, and has been such owner for more than ten years last past, of the several tracts of land mentioned in the contract hereinafter set forth at large, and that he now is in the actual and exclusive…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The contract set out in the bill does not authorize the money paid on the contract to be refunded upon the abstract to be delivered by appellant being found unsatisfactory, but only in the event that the title “should not prove good.” The allegations of the bill are:
“And your orator further shows unto your Honors that' afterward your orator caused to be prepared and presented to said Wells an abstract of the title of said premises in said written contract described, which said abstract was made by Handy & Co., managers of abstract department of the Title Guarantee and. Trust Company, being…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hale v. CravenerIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
- Brizzolara v. MosherIllinois Supreme Court · 1873
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- Miller v. SheaIllinois Supreme Court · 1921