Curtis v. Williams
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Loitm C. Collins, Judge, presiding. In September, 1885, Margaret A. Humble filed her bill in the Circuit Court, setting up that she had been the owner of certain lots which are particularly described, and that while such owner she was induced by false and fraudulent representations of James M. Allen and Henry H. Armstead to convey said lots to said Allen by deed; that said lots were fully worth $2,500; that said…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Loitm C. Collins, Judge, presiding. In September, 1885, Margaret A. Humble filed her bill in the Circuit Court, setting up that she had been the owner of certain lots which are particularly described, and that while such owner she was induced by false and fraudulent representations of James M. Allen and Henry H. Armstead to convey said lots to said Allen by deed; that said lots were fully worth $2,500; that said conveyance thereof was without consideration; that said Allen and wife conveyed the said real estate to one J. B. Armstead; that…
1DissentGary, P. J.
To discuss all the questions suggested by this record, would require almost a complete treatise on pleading and practice in chancery.
In 1885 the appellee took a conveyance of a lot, and assumed to, pay an incumbrance on it, created by her grantor, of $1,500. The appellant bought that incumbrance and now holds it. In September of the same year, Margaret A. Humble, a former owner of the lot, filed her bill in the Circuit Court claiming that she had been defrauded in the sale of the lot, by the persons from whom the appellee derived her title to the extent of $1,250, and asking to be subrogated…
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- Gerard v. BatesIllinois Supreme Court · 1888
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