Kissack v. Bourke

This was a bill in chancery filed in the circuit court of Cook county by the appellants, against the appellee, to enforce the specific performance of the following contract in writing for the sale of the tract of land described-therein:

“In consideration of $100 to me in hand paid by William Kissack, trustee, the. receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, I agree to sell and convey to said William Kissack, trustee, the remaining seventy-nine acres of land, more or less, of the farm owned by me in the town of Algonquin, in McHenry county, Illinois, (after deducting the portion thereof heretofore…