Legal Opinion

Union Mutual Life Insurance v. Kirchoff

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided June 12, 1890PublishedCited by 26 opinions

Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. F. Tuley, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig

This was a bill in equity, brought by Elizabeth Kirchoff on the 12th day of June, 1882, against the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, to redeem lots 2 and 4, block 21, in canal trustees’ subdivision of a certain quarter-section of land in Cook county, to which the company acquired title under a quitclaim deed from complainant and her husband, and under certain foreclosure proceedings in which she, her husband, and others, were defendants.

The record is quite voluminous, but the facts, briefly stated, are substantially as follows: On the 8th day of May, 1871, Julius Kirchoff, complainant’s…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Union Mutual Life Insurance v. WhiteIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
  2. Danforth v. SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1851
  3. Howard v. GreshamSupreme Court of Georgia · 1859
  4. Booth v. HynesIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
  5. Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co. v. ElliottIllinois Supreme Court · 1875

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Buford v. Chief, Park Dist. PoliceIllinois Supreme Court · 1960
  2. Worrell v. ForsythIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  3. de Bartlett v. de WilsonSupreme Court of Florida · 1906
  4. Western Land & Cattle Co. v. National BankArizona Supreme Court · 1925
  5. Union Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. KirchoffSupreme Court of the United States · 1896

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