Hulshizer v. Lamoreux

Citations

• 58 Ill. 72

Syllabus

<p>Vbndob and fcjechasbb—remedy of administrator of the former to recover purchase money. A purchaser of land gave his promissory note for an unpaid balance of the purchase money, the vendor covenanting “ that upon the payment of said sum being made at the time and in the manner aforesaid,” he would convey. The vendor died without having made a conveyance. In an action by his administrator upon the note, it was hdd, that, as the title to the land was the only consideration for the note, until that title was made, which the administrator could not make without the aid of chancery, no right of action accrued on the note.</p>