Scham v. Besse

This is a direct appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Whiteside county which directed the conveyance of certain real estate and the payment of the residue of the estate of Isaac Korn to the appellees, in accordance with the terms of a contract to make a will.

The pertinent facts shown by the record are as follows: On May 13, 1936, Isaac Korn, a man 79 years old, was the owner of two parcels of land in the city of Sterling. A mortgage given on one of them had been foreclosed and a master’s certificate of sale had been issued, and at the date of the contract Korn’s period of redemption…