Wooldridge v. Gage
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by William Wooldridge, against James L. Gage, William Hubbard and William L. Sloss, to set aside a certain deed of trust and a sale thereunder as being made in fraud of creditors. The court below dismissed the bill.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, brought by William Wooldridge, against James L. Gage, William Hubbard and William L. Sloss, to set aside a certain deed of trust and a sale thereunder as being made in fraud of creditors. The court below dismissed the bill. William Wooldridge having departed this life, Rebecca Wooldridge, his widow, and William Wooldridge, his heir at law, prosecuted this writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
On the 3d day of February, 1855, William Bruse executed a deed of trust of the premises in question to Sloss and Jones, as trustees, to secure the payment of a promissory note to one Hubbard, for $1200. On the 13th of March, 1856, the premises were sold under the deed of trust, under which sale the defendants claimed.
At the May term, 1857, a judgment was recovered by Sloss and Rutherford against Bruse, and under an execution issued thereon the premises were sold by the sheriff on the 26th of June, 1857. The complainant claimed under this sale, and filed this bill to set aside the sale and…
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