Ebert v. Arends
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Ford county; the Hon. John H. Moffett, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed on March 22, 1900, by the appellee against the appellant for the specific performance of a written contract for the sale of eighty acres of land in Ford county by the appellant to the appellee. Answer was filed to the bill by the appellant, and the cause was referred to a special master to take evidence and report his conclusions.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Ford county; the Hon. John H. Moffett, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed on March 22, 1900, by the appellee against the appellant for the specific performance of a written contract for the sale of eighty acres of land in Ford county by the appellant to the appellee. Answer was filed to the bill by the appellant, and the cause was referred to a special master to take evidence and report his conclusions. Objections were filed to the report before the master and by him overruled. The master reported in favor of the appellant, and recommended that appellee’s…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
Appellee, the vendee in the contract the specific performance of which is here sought to be enforced, paid $300.00 in cash upon September 25,1899, the day of the execution of the contract. The next payment of $3980.00 with interest was to be made on March 1, 1900, but the contract does not name the place at which such payment was to be made. This controversy arises out of a disagreement between appellant and appellee, the parties to the contract, as to the place where the payment of $3980.00 was to be made. The appellant claims that the appellee was to pay him on March 1, 1900, at Roberts…
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