Legal Opinion

Roy v. Goings

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided October 2, 1880PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District; —heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Pulaski county; the Hon. David J. Baker, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Dickey

In January, 1878, Goings gave appellant, as part payment for a farm, a note, secured by a chattel mortgage, for the sum of $278.47, due March 1, 1879. The mortgage contained a clause which provided that if Roy should, at any time before the said promissory note became due, “ feel himself unsafe or insecure,” he should have the right to take possession of the property mortgaged. A description of part of the property mortgaged (as found in the mortgage), was as follows: “All crops to be grown in year 1878, on mortgagee’s part of old Barber farm.”

In October, 1878, Roy seized, by virtue of this…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Bailey v. GodfreyIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
  2. Furlong v. CoxIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
  3. Davenport v. LedgerIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
  4. Lewis v. D'ArcyIllinois Supreme Court · 1874

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Hogan v. AkinIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
  2. Watson v. CudneyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1908
  3. R. P. Harris & Co. v. ThomasAlabama Court of Appeals · 1921
  4. Wettlin v. JonesWyoming Supreme Court · 1925
  5. In Re Danville Hotel Co.District Court, E.D. Illinois · 1929

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