Underwood v. West
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Sidney W. Harris, Judge, presiding. This was a hill filed in chancery, by the appellant, in the county of De Kalb, against the appellee, to set aside a conveyance of certain lands in De Kalb county, which had been made by appellant to appellee, under and by virtue of an .agreement made between them to exchange property.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. Sidney W. Harris, Judge, presiding. This was a hill filed in chancery, by the appellant, in the county of De Kalb, against the appellee, to set aside a conveyance of certain lands in De Kalb county, which had been made by appellant to appellee, under and by virtue of an .agreement made between them to exchange property. By .■agreement, a change of venue was taken to the Circuit Court for La Salle county, where, on the hearing of the case, the 'court entered a decree dismissing the bill, whereupon the complainant appealed to this…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
It appears from the record, that appellant and appellee, in 1859, agreed to exchange real estate. Appellee claimed to be the owner of an undivided half of the property known as the Fox river house, in the city of Ottawa, which he agreed to convey to appellant, for which the latter was to convey to the former eighty acres of land in De Kalb county and pay him some cattle, as the difference in the value of the property. Appellant executed a deed for the land, and placed it in the hands of Arthur Lockwood, to be delivered to appellee when he should deliver to him a conveyance of the city…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Underwood v. WestIllinois Supreme Court · 1869