Calkins v. Calkins
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. S. C. Stough, Judge, presiding. On May 2, 1903,- Samuel W, Calkins and Fannie M. Calkins, his wife, filed a bill in the circuit court of LaSalle county to remove a cloud from their title to the north forty acres of the east half of the south-east quarter of section 24, town 33, north, range 2, east of the third principal meridian, in said county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. S. C. Stough, Judge, presiding. On May 2, 1903,- Samuel W, Calkins and Fannie M. Calkins, his wife, filed a bill in the circuit court of LaSalle county to remove a cloud from their title to the north forty acres of the east half of the south-east quarter of section 24, town 33, north, range 2, east of the third principal meridian, in said county. The alleged cloud consisted of a quit-claim deed executed by the complainants on October 13, 1897, purporting to convey said tract of land to Frank B. Calkins. The consideration expressed in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The evidence relied upon by appellees to prove non-delivery of the deed to Prank B. Calkins consists of the testimony of their daughter, Daisy Dickman, and her husband, Herman Dickman, and of appellees’ son Alanson Calkins, to the effect that Frank B. Calkins stated to them at various times that he was to get a deed to the north forty acres of the farm after the death of his parents if he paid his father $1500 and took care of his parents during the remainder of their lives; also the testimony of Daisy Dickman, to the effect that she was present at her father’s house when her father brought…
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