Allen v. Jackson

We have not had the benefit of any argument, in the present case, on behalf of the defendants in error, and we may, therefore, have misapprehended some of the facts; but as we have been able to gather them from the abstract and argument of plaintiffs in error, they are, so far as important to any question to be considered by us, in brief, as follows:

The Woodruff heirs owned a tract of land adjoining, or at least in the near vicinity of, the town of Marseilles, in La Salle county, which they contracted to sell and convey, for a consideration to be thereafter paid, to Roderick Clark. Clark was…