Phillips v. South Park Commissioners

This was a bill in equity, in the nature of a bill of inter-pleader, brought by the South Park Commissioners, against Charles B. Phillips, Elizabeth "Ann Phillips, and others. The bill set up that the South Park Commissioners had acquired title to the east half of the south-west quarter of section 13, township 38 north, range 14 east, in Cook county; that under a contract with Charles B. Phillips, dated December 10,1869, the corporation had agreed to pay Phillips, for the land, $800 per acre, when a good title should be made for each acre; that about February, 1859, the said premises were…