Page v. Greeley
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, brought by Page and Sprague, appellants, as vendors, against Greeley, as vendee, to enforce specific performance of a contract made between the parties March 30, 1871, for the exchange of houses and lots situate in the city of Chicago, upon certain terms and conditions therein specified.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, brought by Page and Sprague, appellants, as vendors, against Greeley, as vendee, to enforce specific performance of a contract made between the parties March 30, 1871, for the exchange of houses and lots situate in the city of Chicago, upon certain terms and conditions therein specified. The agreement was executed only by Page of the one part and Greeley of the other part. It contained a provision for the completion by Page of a house in the process of erection on his lot, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McAllister
The appellants, as vendors, set forth the legal effect of the agreement, which they were asking the court to specifically enforce, to be, that they were to furnish the appellee, the vendee, abstracts of title to the premises, made from the records of the county by competent abstract makers, and if the title thus shown was approved by the vendee’s attorney, they were to convey. They allege the furnishing of such abstracts, from which it appeared that their title was good and indefeasible, at law, and in equity, and that vendee’s attorney approved it. There is no allusion to any other title…
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