Rockafellow v. Newcomb

Appellant filed his bill, in the court below, alleging, in substance, that he and appellee entered into a marriage contract, which she has refused to fulfill; in consideration of which, and induced by urgent and repeated solicitations, and her false and fraudulent representations, he executed and delivered to her a deed to a tract of land adjoining the city of Chicago, and known as the Hyde Park property in this record; and that appellee conveyed to him some Iowa land, not in consideration of the Hyde Park property; but, as she stated, to relieve her from continued annoyances on the part of…