Palmer v. Douglas

Citations

• 107 Ill. 204
• 1883 Ill. LEXIS 249

Syllabus

<p>Redemption from sale on execution—after expiration of time—where fraud was practiced. Land was sold on execution, at a grossly inadequate price, and bid in by one who was the family physician of the debtor, and regarded as an intimate friend and adviser, the debtor being an aged, illiterate person, almost wholly ignorant of his legal rights. The purchaser promised to give the debtor all the time he wanted to redeem, telling him he had fifteen months in which to redeem, and by artifice and misrepresentation lulled him into a sense of security until the time of redemption had passed, with the knowledge and participation of the assignee of the certificate of purchase, to whom a sheriff’s deed was made. It was held, that the debtor, under these circumstances, was entitled, on bill in equity, to redeem from the sale, and have the sheriff’s deed set aside as a cloud on his title.</p>