Cowl v. Varnum
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ os Error to the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. I. 0. Wilkinson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery in the Henry Circuit Court by Hiram Yarnum against Kate C. A. A. Cowl and W. Augustus, Cowl, her husband, to enforce a vendor’s lien. A decree passed in favor of the complainant, and'the ease is brought here by writ of error. The only error assigned, is the decree upon the facts, which are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This v^as a suit in chancery to enforce a vendor’s lien, on the following state of facts : The defendant in error sold certain real estate to Kate C. A. A. Cowl, one of the plaintiffs in error, for eight hundred dollars, she being at the timé of the purchase, the wife of her co-plaintiff in error, W. Augustus Cowl, who then acted as her agent in the purchase of the property. Kate paid to the complainant, by her agent, five hundred dollars of the purchase money, it being her sole and separate property, and complainant accepted, for the balance due, the note of W. Augustus Cowl, for three…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Spurck v. CrookIllinois Supreme Court · 1857
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