Barrett v. Geisinger
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lee county j the Hon. John D. Crabtree, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by John W. Barrett against John Barrett and Sarah Greisinger, to, cancel certain conveyances from John Barrett to Sarah Greisinger, and to restrain him from making further conveyances or devises of the land in controversy, and also to establish the complainant’s title thereto.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lee county j the Hon. John D. Crabtree, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by John W. Barrett against John Barrett and Sarah Greisinger, to, cancel certain conveyances from John Barrett to Sarah Greisinger, and to restrain him from making further conveyances or devises of the land in controversy, and also to establish the complainant’s title thereto. John'W. Barrett is the son and Sarah Greisinger is the daughter of John Barrett, and they are his only surviving children. The bill alleges that, in 1866, John Barrett was the owner of a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
The case made by the bill rests in part upon the oral agreement between John W. Barrett, the complainant, and John Barrett his father, alleged to have been entered into in the year 1866, and in parbupon the written lease executed by John Barrett to the complainant, bearing date June 8, 1889. The questions upon which the decision of the case must primarily and mainly rest relate to the oral agreement.
At the time that agreement is alleged to have been entered into, the complainant was, and for some time prior thereto had been, in possession of the eighty acre tract of land in question, as…
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