Peckham v. Haddock
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. On the 29th day of November, 1862, Alfred Gr. Peckham, Dennis M. Pitch and Archibald Thompson exhibited their bill in chancery, in the court below, against Benjamin F. Haddock, Isaac Speer, Thomas Speer and Buckner S. Morris.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. On the 29th day of November, 1862, Alfred Gr. Peckham, Dennis M. Pitch and Archibald Thompson exhibited their bill in chancery, in the court below, against Benjamin F. Haddock, Isaac Speer, Thomas Speer and Buckner S. Morris. It is alleged in the bill that on the 10th day of May, 1855, the defendant Haddock, being the owner in fee of a certain, specified portion of lot number one in block forty-one, in the original town of Chicago, sold and conveyed the same by deed to one Benjamin F. Hickox, for the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beckwith
This is a suit in equity to enforce an equitable mortgage. The bill alleges, that one Hickox made three promissory notes for the sum of six thousand two- hundred and fifty dollars each, payable to Haddock or order, with interest, in one, two and three years after date, respectively, and executed a mortgage of certain premises in Chicago to secure the payment of the same. That afterwards the equity of redemption in the premises came to and was vested in Isaac Speer, under whom the other defendants, after the making of the alleged equitable mortgage, derived their title, with notice. Soon after…
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