Gruhn v. Richardson

This appeal brings before us for review a decree of the circuit court of Macoupin county, setting aside certain mortgages, and a sale thereunder, made pursuant to a previous decree of that court.

The case made by the evidence on behalf of the complainant is, in substance, this: In December, 1881, John Richardson, who had all his life been a farmer, and who had consequently no previous experience in trade, and who had no practical knowledge in that respect, sold his farm for $8000, and engaged in trade in the village of Medora, in Macoupin county. He first tried the grocery business, but that…