Hess v. Weicker

A decree was entered in the superior court of Cook county in a suit in equity in which the appellees, Fred Hess and Martha H. Hess, his wife, were complainants, and the appellants, Philipp Weicker and Mary Weicker, his wife, were defendants, canceling a contract for the purchase by the complainants of premises in Chicago and enforcing specific performance by the defendants of an option for such purchase. From that decree this appeal was prosecuted.

Philipp Weicker was the owner of a lot in Chicago with a frontage of 30 feet on Irving Park boulevard and running back 125 feet to an alley. It was…