Balue v. Taylor

Appellee Robert H. Taylor filed a complaint in the Sullivan Circuit Court, against the appellant, Marion Balue, and co-appellee John C. Chaney, in which he alleged, in substance, the following facts:

That on and prior to the 9th day of January, 1886,. he was the owner of a farm in Clark county, Illinois, of the value of $7,000; that at said date said Balue, conspiring to cheat and defraud him out of his farm, and knowing that plaintiff was desirous of selling said land for the purpose of removing to the State of Kansas, proposed to exchange a tract of land in the last named State, for said…