Tilton v. Stein

Citations

• 87 Ill. 122

Syllabus

<p>Laches—as a defense to enforcing contract. A delay of eight and a half years in filing a bill to enjoin the defendant from engaging in and carrying on a certain business in a place, in violation of his bond to the complainant, where a right was reserved to the defendant to finish work commenced, and to make good warranties of other work, and the violation of the contract was at intervals and under various pretexts, was held, under the circumstances, not sufficient to bar the complainant of equitable relief.</p>