Tenney v. Hemenway

This was a suit in equity, brought by appellants in the Circuit Court of Lee county, against appellee, to restrain the collection of certain promissory notes secured by a chattel mortgage. It appears that one Snow, being the owner of certain real estate in the town of Dixon, including a hotel known as the Hachusa House, on the first of April, 1862, entered into a contract for the sale of the same to one Aaron W. Pitts, for the sum of $7200, of which he paid in hand $1000; the sum of $200 was to be paid on the first of the following July, and the residue in semi-annual payments of $300 each.…