Morton v. Murray
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of McDonough county; the Hon. Charles J. Scofield, Judge, presiding. This bill for specific performance was brought by appellant, Joseph R Morton, against the heirs-at-law of John F., Murray, deceased, to compel them to make him a deed to the east half of the south-east quarter of section 18, in township 5, north, range 3, west, in McDonough county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of McDonough county; the Hon. Charles J. Scofield, Judge, presiding. This bill for specific performance was brought by appellant, Joseph R Morton, against the heirs-at-law of John F., Murray, deceased, to compel them to make him a deed to the east half of the south-east quarter of section 18, in township 5, north, range 3, west, in McDonough county. The bill alleged that appellant, in August, 1873, being then fourteen years old, went to live with and work for John F. Murray, whose wife was appellant’s aunt, and that he so lived with and worked for Murray on his…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Carter
This was a bill for the specific performance of a contract to convey eighty acres of land. We are satisfied that the principal allegations of the bill were sustained by the evidence, and that the decree appealed from is erroneous. The complainant, Morton, who was a nephew of Murray’s wife, from the age of fourteen lived in the family of Murray, and worked for him for upwards of six years, performing for the greater part of the time the labor of a hired hand, but received for his services little more than his clothing". Murray regarded him with affection, and considered himself indebted to…
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