Legal Opinion
Carver v. Lasater
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided November 15, 1864PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Error to the Circuit Court of Marion county; the Hon. S. L. Bryan, Judge, presiding This was a bill in chancery for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land, brought in the Marion Circuit Court, at the March term, 1863, by Erastus B. Carver, against Stanford A. Lasater and Daniel Gregory. The case was heard on the bill, answer, replication, exhibits and depositions, and the court decreed for defendants for costs. The case is brought here by writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
" The record in this, case shows, that on the seventeenth of March, 1857, the plaintiff in error entered into a contract with Lasater, one of the defendants, of which the following is a copy:
“ PATOKA, March 17, 1857.—This indenture, made this day between Stanford A. Lasater of the first part, and Erastus B. Carver of the second part, of Marion Co., Ills. Whereas, the said Lasater has bargained and sold unto the said Carver, the hi. half of S. W. fracl, qu. of Section 19, T. 4 N., 1 east of the third principal meridian, containing forty-five acres, for the sum and consideration of two hundred…
2Cited by1 opinion
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