Eckert v. Gridley
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Third District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cass county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. On April 25, 1873, there was an administrator’s sale of lots 2 and 3, in block 48, in Beardstown, for $364, and a deed, therefor executed to Leo. Eckert and Leopold Eckert, father and son.
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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Third District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cass county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. On April 25, 1873, there was an administrator’s sale of lots 2 and 3, in block 48, in Beardstown, for $364, and a deed, therefor executed to Leo. Eckert and Leopold Eckert, father and son. Leopold Eckert died in 1877, and in December, 1880, the administrator of his estate filed a petition in the Cass county court for leave to sell the undivided half interest of the decedent in said lots, for the payment of debts of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
The proof shows that Mrs. Eckert, the wife of Leo. Eckert, bid off the lots at the administrator’s sale of them, and gave the name of Leo. Eckert as the purchaser, and that she paid the purchase money from what the witnesses supposed to be her and her husband’s funds. The taxes on the lots, after the purchase, were paid by Leo., and whatever of rents were received from the property appear to have been paid to him and his wife. There was evidence of statements by Leopold, on several occasions, that he had no property, and that he had spoken of the lots as his mother’s property,—that she had…
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