Legal Opinion

Greenwood v. Fenn

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided January 22, 1891PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. O. H. Horton, Judge, presiding. Mr. E. A. Otis, and Mr. Edward Maher, for the appellees :

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey

This was a bill in chancery, brought by Josiah Greenwood against Thomas E. Fenn and Sarah T. Slayton and Nettie H. Slayton, the heirs and devisees of Charles A. Slayton, deceased, to rescind a contract in pursuance of which' the complainant had conveyed certain lots and buildings in the city of Chicago to said Thomas E. Penn and Charles A. Slayton in exchange for certain farming lands in the State of Wisconsin, and to compel a reconveyance to the complainant of said Chicago property. The bill alleges that in January, 1889, the complainant was the owner of certain lots and buildings in Chicago…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Grimes v. SandersSupreme Court of the United States · 1876

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Wollenberger v. HooverIllinois Supreme Court · 1931
  2. Eisenberg v. GoldsteinIllinois Supreme Court · 1963
  3. Richardson v. LoweCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
  4. Guhl v. GuhlIllinois Supreme Court · 1941
  5. Bulley & Andrews, Inc. v. Symons Corp.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1975

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