Dyas v. Dyas
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court, for the Third District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike county; the Hon. Harry Higbee, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court, for the Third District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Pike county; the Hon. Harry Higbee, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal by Joseph Dyas and Mary A. Dyas from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Third District affirming a decree entered in a proceeding begun by a bill of interpleader filed in the circuit court of Pike county by Mattinson, Wilson & Co., a banking firm, against appellants and Charles D. C. Dyas. The following statement of the facts is taken in large part from the opinion of the Appellate Court: In December,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The principal question in this case is one of fact. The son, Charles D. C. Dyas, contends, and the circuit court found, that the instrument of November 8, 1905, including the memorandum written on the back thereof, evidences an agreement entered into by the son and his parents, the appellants, providing what amount of the proceeds of the sale of the farm should be paid to the son. On the part of the appellants it is contended that their signatures to the agreement written on the face of this paper were obtained by fraud and circumvention, or that the writing above their signatures was…
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