Silva v. Hopkinson

Frank P. Silva, the appellant, on January 23, 1893, entered into a contract with Evangeline S. Hopkinson and Emma H. Bowers, appellees, to purchase from them certain real estate in Chicago, viz., lot 9 of the subdivision of lots 15, 21, 22, 23 and 24, of Hopkinson’s re-subdivision of lots 4, 8, 9 and 10, in block 13, of the Blue Island Land and Building Company’s subdivision, known as Washington Heights, as said subdivision is recorded in the recorder’s office of Cook county. Silva, upon examining the abstract of title to the property, refused to comply with the contract, on the ground that…