Legal Opinion

Dodge v. Cole

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 3, 1881PublishedCited by 60 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court óf Peoria county; the Hon. J. W. Cochean, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by William M. Dodge, conservator of Maria Sharp, against Almiron S. Cole, Archibald McMasters, Charles Raymond, Thomas L. Davis, John R. Smith, Washington Cockle, William C. Henry, August Weber, Joseph Miller, Theobold Pfeifer, Jacob Rabold, Henry B. Rouse, Margaret Rouse, Horatio R. Wheeler, The Mechanics’ Rational Bank of Peoria, William Heck,…

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Appeal from the Circuit Court óf Peoria county; the Hon. J. W. Cochean, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by William M. Dodge, conservator of Maria Sharp, against Almiron S. Cole, Archibald McMasters, Charles Raymond, Thomas L. Davis, John R. Smith, Washington Cockle, William C. Henry, August Weber, Joseph Miller, Theobold Pfeifer, Jacob Rabold, Henry B. Rouse, Margaret Rouse, Horatio R. Wheeler, The Mechanics’ Rational Bank of Peoria, William Heck, George Schmidt, Carl Wagoner, Philip Messerschmidt, John McMasters, Maurice Maroney, Samuel Seiler and Henry Kreiger, to set…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkev

• This is a proceeding in chancery, commenced by appellant, against appellees, in the Peoria county circuit court, on the 20th of April, 1874, as conservator of Maria Sharp, a lunatic, which seeks to have set aside and declared fraudulent and void, divers deeds and conveyances relating to a valuable parcel of land, now constituting a part of the city of Peoria, in this State, which, it is claimed, belongs to the ward of appellant.

■ There was a hearing upon the merits, in the court below, resulting in a decree dismissing the complainant’s bill, and the case is brought to this court by appeal.

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2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Curtiss v. BrownIllinois Supreme Court · 1862
  2. Eddy v. People ex rel. EddyIllinois Supreme Court · 1854

3Cited by60 opinions

  1. Hale v. HaleIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  2. In Re the Welfare of HudsonWashington Supreme Court · 1942
  3. People ex rel. Woodyatt v. ThompsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  4. Gavin v. CurtinIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
  5. People v. BreenIllinois Supreme Court · 1976

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