Farrar v. Payne

This was a bill in chancery, brought in, the Cook circuit court, by Henry W. Farrar, complainant, against Eugene B. Payne and others, to redeem a certain tract of land in Cook county, which had been sold by Gibbons, one of the defendants, under a trust deed executed by John W. Sharp to Gibbons, to secure the payment of a promissory note for $654.

Payne filed a cross-bill to set aside, as clouds upon his title, certain deeds under which Farrar claimed title, and, on the hearing, the original bill was dismissed and the relief prayed by the cross-bill granted.

Farrar takes this appeal to reverse…