Wright v. Troutman

This writ of error is brought to reverse a decree of the circuit court of Coles county, rendered at the September term, 1863, in a certain cause, wherein Frank Troutman, the defendant in error, filed his bill against the plaintiffs in error and others, to foreclose a lien and subject certain lands in the bill described to the payment of the purchase money due and owing under a written contract of sale.

The contract of sale was made by William E. Simms, who owned the lands, on the 18th day of December, 1854, by which he sold to R. H. Warren, trustee of Sarah Wright, 480 acres of land, for the…