McLaurie v. Partlow
Illinois Supreme Court
Weit .of Error to the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. O. L. Davts, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, instituted by Samuel Partlow, to set aside a deed alleged to be a cloud upon the title of complainant to a lot of ground, which he claimed under a levy and sale on an execution issued upon a judgment recovered by him against Thomas A. McLaurie. The circumstances attending the transaction are set forth in the opinion of the court.
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Weit .of Error to the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. O. L. Davts, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, instituted by Samuel Partlow, to set aside a deed alleged to be a cloud upon the title of complainant to a lot of ground, which he claimed under a levy and sale on an execution issued upon a judgment recovered by him against Thomas A. McLaurie. The circumstances attending the transaction are set forth in the opinion of the court. The court below decreed according to the prayer of the bill, and dismissed a cross bill filed by the defendants, who thereupon sued out this…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
It appears, from the evidence in this case, that, some time in the year 1855, Thomas A. McLaurie, with one Jaques, purchased lots thirteen and fourteen, in the Illinois Central railroad addition to Urbana, for the sum of five hundred dollars. McLaurie had received from his wife and son that sum, which they had received from her father, and with a portion of which he paid his half of the purchase money for these lots. He thereupon executed a deed of conveyance to his wife for the undivided half of fifty feet of the east end of these lots. This deed was never recorded. After taking advice of…
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