Legal Opinion

Farnsworth v. Strasler

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided June 15, 1851PublishedCited by 19 opinions

This was a bill filed by the administrator and administratrix of the estate of Henry Schneider, deceased, showing that at April term, 1849, a decree obtained against Terah B. Farnsworth, ordering and adjudging that he should pay them in their representative capacity, $187 50, and costs of suit, for pay and compensation for a building and improvements, put upon lot twenty-two in the town of Galena, by said Schneider, in his life time.

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This was a bill filed by the administrator and administratrix of the estate of Henry Schneider, deceased, showing that at April term, 1849, a decree obtained against Terah B. Farnsworth, ordering and adjudging that he should pay them in their representative capacity, $187 50, and costs of suit, for pay and compensation for a building and improvements, put upon lot twenty-two in the town of Galena, by said Schneider, in his life time. That an execution had issued upon said decree, and to which the sheriff returned that he could not find any personal or real property of said Farnsworth, on…

1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.

It is first objected that this bill is insufficient. This objection is not well taken. The bill alleges that at the April term, 1849, of the Jo Davies County Court, the complainant obtained a decree against the defendant Farnsworth for the the sum of $187 50, upon which an execution was issued which was levied upon the premises described in the bill. The bill further alleges that in May, 1843, Farnsworth conveyed the premises to Harriet Farnsworth, and that in September, 1845, Harriet and the defendant Frink, being about to intermarry, conveyed the premises to T. B. Farnsworth, in trust, for…

2Cited by19 opinions

  1. Bigelow v. AndressIllinois Supreme Court · 1863
  2. Reed v. TylerIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
  3. People ex rel. Dyer v. ClarkIllinois Supreme Court · 1915
  4. Twell v. TwellMontana Supreme Court · 1886
  5. McIntyre v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1907

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