Legal Opinion

Monahan v. Lovece

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 15, 1897Published

Bill to Cancel Notes.—Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Farlin Q. Ball, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waterman

It appears from the complainant’s bill that they purchased from appellant the furniture, fixtures, contents and good will of a saloon at 507 South Clark street, Chicago. That they gave therefor three vacant lots in Indiana, at a valuation of three hundred dollars, and promissory notes of the complainants for the sum of $1,200, making in all $1,500, securing the same by a chattel mortgage on the contents of said saloon.

That the appellant, when said notes and mortgage were executed, verbally agreed that he would go out of the saloon business in the neighborhood of 507 South Clark street, and…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Wilson v. . DeenNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
  2. Welz v. RhodiusIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
  3. Simpson Centenary College v. BryanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1878
  4. Jones v. Council Bluffs Branch of the State Bank of IowaIllinois Supreme Court · 1864

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