Gall v. Stoll

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Will county dismissing a bill filed by appellant and others for the partition of an eighty-acre tract of land and other relief. The land in controversy prior to 1855 belonged to Isaac Francis, and on June 11 of that year he entered into a written agreement, which is denominated by counsel a bond for a deed, in and by which he agreed to convey to Charles Gall said tract of land for the sum of $1540,—$100 to be paid in cash on delivery of the agreement, $700 on the first day of March, 1856, and $740 on the first day of March, 1857. In and…