Gibbs v. Blackwell
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Ira 0. Wilkinson, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, in the Henry Circuit Court, brought by Ellis Blackwell, Maria Blackwell, Eliza Ann Gibbs, Sarah E. Gibbs, Webster C. Gibbs, Lauretta C. Gibbs, and Ellen L. Gibbs, against Bussell Gibbs and Frederick P. Brown.
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Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. Ira 0. Wilkinson, Judge, presiding. This was a suit in chancery, in the Henry Circuit Court, brought by Ellis Blackwell, Maria Blackwell, Eliza Ann Gibbs, Sarah E. Gibbs, Webster C. Gibbs, Lauretta C. Gibbs, and Ellen L. Gibbs, against Bussell Gibbs and Frederick P. Brown. The bill alleges, that Asahel Gibbs died, on the 17th day of July, 1859, intestate, leaving complainant, Eliza Ann Gibbs, widow, and the other complainants his sole heirs at law. * That in the lifetime of Asahel, defendant Bussell Gibbs, on tne 23d day of August,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
This was a bill in equity exhibited for the purpose of compelling a specific performance of a contract, and to enforce a conveyance of the land in controversy. The bill alleges that the purchase was made, the consideration was paid, possession taken, and valuable improvements put upon the land, by the purchaser. That a deed was executed by Brown at the request of defendant Gibbs, of whom the ancestor of complainants had purchased, which was never delivered, but Bussell Gibbs induced Brown to convey to him, he at the time promising to convey to Asahel Gibbs, according to their agreement. The…
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