Mathewson v. Davis
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Colostin D. Myers, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The controversy in this case is over the question whether appellees, as executors of the will* of David Davis, deceased, are liable to appellants for interest upon a sum of money deposited with said David Davis to be held by him until the title to a tract of land should be perfected, and if liable for interest, for what period it shall be charged, and whether it ought to be compounded.
In the year 1865 Brockholst Mathewson, of Johnston, Rhode Island, was the owner of eighty acres of land in Christian county, in this State. David Davis, of Bloomington, had sustained some business relations with…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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