Brinkerhoff v. Everett
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of the County of Putnam ; the Hon. Samuel L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. Oh the 28th day of July, 1864, the defendants in error filed their bill in chancery in the Putnam Circuit Court, for the purpose of setting aside the sale of lot Ho. two, in block No. one, Front Street, in the town of Hennepin, belonging to one Jeremiah Everett at the time of his decease, which sale was made by the Sheriff of said County, under several judgments…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of the County of Putnam ; the Hon. Samuel L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. Oh the 28th day of July, 1864, the defendants in error filed their bill in chancery in the Putnam Circuit Court, for the purpose of setting aside the sale of lot Ho. two, in block No. one, Front Street, in the town of Hennepin, belonging to one Jeremiah Everett at the time of his decease, which sale was made by the Sheriff of said County, under several judgments obtained against him, executions having issued and sale made subsequent to his death. The bill charges, that on the 5th of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
One Jeremiah Everett died, July 5th, 1860, there being at the time certain judgments against him belonging to a part of the plaintiffs in error, and rendered in a court of record. He had been occupying a homestead with four minor children, of whom three have not yet attained their majority. On his death the minors being motherless, were placed by their guardian in different families, one of them residing with him, and the homestead was rented for their benefit. About three years after the death of their father, executions were sued out on the judgments and levied on the homestead, and it was…
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