Drury v. Holden

i Mr. Justice Sheldon

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This is an appeal by Drury, defendant in the court ■ below, from a decree setting aside a sale and deed to him of certain premises in Charles N. Holden’s subdivision in Chicago, known in the record as the “barn lot, ” made under the power in a trust deed given by appellee, Charles C. P. Holden, to secure the payment of his note for $6500, to one Kelly.

The record shows that on April 23, 1869, Holden executed to Sanford B. Perry, as trustee, a deed of trust on lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, in C. C. P. Holden’s re-subdivision, etc., to •secure…