Grant v. Bennett
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery by Abraham J. Bockafellow, against Charles E. Grant .and Mary A. Newcomb and. one Saunders, to set aside a certain deed given by Miss Newcomb to Grant, and a deed from Grant to Saunders, as a cloud upon the title of the complainant in certain lands. On September 21, 1868, Bockafellow conveyed to Miss Newcomb the .premises in question.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery by Abraham J. Bockafellow, against Charles E. Grant .and Mary A. Newcomb and. one Saunders, to set aside a certain deed given by Miss Newcomb to Grant, and a deed from Grant to Saunders, as a cloud upon the title of the complainant in certain lands. On September 21, 1868, Bockafellow conveyed to Miss Newcomb the .premises in question. Bockafellow resided in Galva, Illinois, and Miss Newcomb in Galesburg. In January, 1869, Miss Newcomb made a parol contract with Grant to sell…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
This was a bill brought by John I. Bennett and others, appellees, in the circuit court of Cook county, against Charles E. Grant and others, to set aside, as a cloud upon their title, a certain deed purporting to have been executed on the 4th day of March, 1869, by Mary A. Newcomb to Charles E. Grant, for certain property in Hyde Park, Cook county.
The cause came to a hearing upon the pleadings and evidence, and the court rendered a decree in favor of the complainants in the bill, to reverse which this appeal has been brought.
The property originally belonged to Abraham J. Bockafellow, who, in…
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