Temple v. Johnson

It appears that Margaret Johnson, who has since intermarried with one Martin, owning a number of lots in the city of Chicago, conveyed six of these lots to William Bayland, to secure a debt which her father owed him; that, afterwards, her father died, and, in 1866, Bayland recovered a judgment against her for §2800, the amount of the debt she had made the deed to secure. It seems to be conceded that she agreed with her brother-in-law, John F. Temple, that he might sell these six lots and eight others, if he could find a purchaser who would give a sum sufficient to pay the judgment. The…