Cowan v. Curran
Illinois Supreme Court
. Appear from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. This case has been here before, as will be seen by reference to Cowan v. Kane, 211 Ill. 572. After the decree was reversed, and the cause remanded by order of this court, entered on October 24, 1904, the cause was re-docketed in the court below on November 30, 1904. On February 8, 1905, the appellee, Richard Curran, who had not theretofore been •a party to the proceeding, and whose…
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. Appear from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. This case has been here before, as will be seen by reference to Cowan v. Kane, 211 Ill. 572. After the decree was reversed, and the cause remanded by order of this court, entered on October 24, 1904, the cause was re-docketed in the court below on November 30, 1904. On February 8, 1905, the appellee, Richard Curran, who had not theretofore been •a party to the proceeding, and whose absence from the record as a party was one of the causes of reversal upon the former hearing, filed a petition,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
In August, 1902, William A. Pridmore, a real estate agent in Chicago, wrote a letter to the appellant, Dr. James E. Cowan, living in Galesburg, Illinois, and owning the lots here in controversy at the corner of Sixty-first street and Ellis avenue in Chicago, asking the price at which Cowan would sell the lots. On September 15, 1902, in answer to a letter from Pridmore of that day asking: “Will you please let me know your lowest figure for all cash? If you can make the price low I think I can sell it.” Cowan wrote in reply: “One hundred and seventy feet frontage on Sixty-first, ninety on Ellis…
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