Ames v. Witbeck

This is an appeal from a decree rendered in the circuit court of Cook county, holding that a certain contract be specifically performed and that certain conveyances of real estate be set aside, and awarding other relief. The record is voluminous and the facts complicated, but they are in substance as follows:

On June 22, 1891, Sidney Briggs, as the owner in fee of lots 1 and 2 of the county clerk’s subdivision of certain other lots in Ellis’ east addition to the city of Chicago, leased the same to one Cozzens for a term of ninety-nine years, and in August, 1892, said Cozzens sub-let the…