DeWalsh v. Braman
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon.' R. S. Ttjthill, Judge, presiding. A bill in chancery was filed by appellee, Elias Bra-man, the complainant in the court below, alleging that he was the equitable owner of lots 14 and 15, west of Ranson street, in Ranson’s subdivision of that part of block 2 west of the Chicago and Rock Island railroad, in canal trustees’ subdivision of section 83, township 39, north, range 14, east of the third principal meridian, in…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon.' R. S. Ttjthill, Judge, presiding. A bill in chancery was filed by appellee, Elias Bra-man, the complainant in the court below, alleging that he was the equitable owner of lots 14 and 15, west of Ranson street, in Ranson’s subdivision of that part of block 2 west of the Chicago and Rock Island railroad, in canal trustees’ subdivision of section 83, township 39, north, range 14, east of the third principal meridian, in Cook county. The bill alleges that the legal title to said lots was held by appellant, Edward P. DeWalsh, one of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
The questions involved in this record present a series of facts in the main undisputed, and which, it is insisted by appellant, require the application of one of the oldest principles of equity, viz., “he who asks equity must do equity.” The Statute of Limitations is largely the defense interposed to bar t.he relief asked for by appellant (defendant below) in his answer.
There can no serious doubt arise, upon a reading of' this record, but that in the fall of 1884 DeWalsh expended over <¡¡>1100 in money for labor, materials, etc., in improving and remodeling the premises of appellee. The…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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