Mathers v. Carter
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Douglas county; the Hon. Oliver L. Davis, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtHigbee, J.
The declaration in this case avers in substance that one Clark Elkin was, on the 30th day of August, 1879, indebted to John Mathers, since deceased, in the sum of six hundred dollars, for which said Mathers then held his notes; that Elkin was at the same time the owner and holder of a bond for a deed executed to him by appellee Rucker K. Carter, in and by which bond Carter had agreed to convey to Elkin twenty-five acres of land in said county of Douglas.
That Carter then and there undertook and promised said Elkin that he would pay to said Mathers the amount so due from Elkin to Mathers, in…
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