Brown v. Krause
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook ■county; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook ■county; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding. This is a bill filed in the Superior Court of Cook County on ■July 20, 1886, by James G. Brown of St. Louis, Missouri, to foreclose a deed of trust, dated March 14, 1884, executed by Frederick W. Krause and Josephine M. Krause, his wife, to 'Thomas E. Ralston of St. Louis, Missouri, as trustee, to secure five notes, dated April 1, 1884, made by Frederick W. Krause to the order of James Gr. Brown, drawing six per cent…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The main witnesses in' behalf of- the complainants in the cross-bill as to the representations, which were made by Dodd, Brown & Co. to induce Krause and his wife to purchase the Texas plantation, were Krause himself and his oldest son. Their testimony is confirmed by so many circumstances, and is so consistent with the conduct of the parties afid with the character and outcome of all their proceedings, that it commends itself to our minds as worthy of belief. The main witnesses to show, that the representations in question were not made, were Dodd and Brown. We cannot accept their statements…
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