Hunt v. Smith

This was a bill in chancery, brought by Charles E. Smith against Robert I. Hunt, for a specific performance of a contract for the conveyance by Hunt to Smith of certain lots of land in Chicago. H. W. Fuller was also made a party defendant on the allegation that the legal title of record to said premises was apparently in him, and that he had executed- and delivered to his co-defendant a deed thereof which the latter fraudulently withheld from the record. A supplemental bill was subsequently filed making Augustus Newman a defendant, and alleging that since the filing of the original bill, he…