Shinn v. Fredericks
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. This was a hill in chancery to foreclose a mortgage executed by George W. and Charles S. Fredericks, to secure the payment of three certain promissory notes, by them signed, each for the sum of $333.33|-, all dated July 7, 1860, drawing six per cent interest per annum, and given for the purchase money of the land in said mortgage described.
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Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. This was a hill in chancery to foreclose a mortgage executed by George W. and Charles S. Fredericks, to secure the payment of three certain promissory notes, by them signed, each for the sum of $333.33|-, all dated July 7, 1860, drawing six per cent interest per annum, and given for the purchase money of the land in said mortgage described. Joseph Wetzler being, at the commencement of the suit, in possession of the land, and claiming title thereto, was made a party defendant. The facts necessary…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
It appears, from the evidence introduced on the trial, that the land was entered by Joseph Kirk on the 31st of July, 1852. He soon after removed to the State of Iowa, and left the land in charge of Darst, as his agent, to look after it and to pay taxes and make sale. Darst effected a sale, and Kirk conveyed the land to Alexander Easton, a resident of Pennsylvania, on the 25th of December, 1855. On the 7th of July, 1860, Easton, being in Woodford county, in this State, where the land is situated, sold it to the two Fredericks for $1,000, and received for the purchase money three notes of that…
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