Patterson v. Vermilion Academy

Appellants’ intestate, Golden Patterson, filed a bill in the circuit court of Vermilion county for the purpose, as declared in the briefs, of enforcing the terms of a written contract and to foreclose a mortgage given to secure the performance of that contract. On a hearing the bill was dismissed for want of equity, and the cause comes here for review.

Golden Patterson, appellants’ intestate, on June 3, 1914, entered into a contract with appellee, the Vermilion Academy, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois for educational purposes and not for pecuniary profit, by…