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James Chessen." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Casey, P. J.\nThis was an action of debt brought by appellee against appellants in the Circuit Court of Madison county. The declaration contained the common counts.\nThe general issue was filed to the declaration. A recovery is sought on the count for money had and received. In the circuit court a jury was waived, the cause was heard by the court and a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff. A motion for a new trial was entered and refused and the case is brought o to this court by appeal. Upon the trial of the cause the plaintiff introduced in evidence a deed made by the defendants on the 19th of November, 1881, conveying to the plaintiff a certain tract of land therein described by metes and bounds and situated in the county of Madison and State of Illinois. The consideration expressed on the face of the deed is the sum of four thousand and one hundred dollars.\nThe plaintiff further showed at the time of the making and delivery of said deed, the land was in the possession of Jacob Soring, who held it by virtue of a written lease and that said lease did not expire until the 24th of December, 1882. That after the deed was made and before the lease expired, Soring paid to O. A. Murray, agent for Samuel Neill, one of the defendants, the sum of $192, as rent for the premises described in the deed. This suit is brought to recover that rent. On the trial of the cause the defendants offered in evidence the folfo wing contract or memorandum:\n\u201c Alton, Ills., Nov. 3, 1881.\n\u201c We, the undersigned, agree to place iff the hands of the Alton National Bank, each of ns $200; whereas James Chessen has purchased of Samuel Neill sixty acres of land more or less at $65.00 and the said Neill is to have the crop of wheat for the year 1882, or until the expiration of the lease of Jacob Bering; when Mr. Neill delivers to the bank a deed of the land, then Mr. Chessen is to pay for same, and if either party refuses to come up to the agreement or backs out of it, the other party lias the $400 (four hundred dollars).\n(Signed) \u201c James Chessen.\n\u201cSamuel Neill.\u201d\nThe plaintiff objected to the introduction of this instrument as evidence. The objection was sustained by the court and defendants excepted to the ruling of the court. The defendants also proposed to show that the land referred to in the instrument or agreement was the same land as that described in the deed made by defendants to plaintiff. Objection was \"made and sustained by the court. Defendant\u2019s counsel also offered to prove bv the witness Caldwell that the plaintiff, by ' agreement made before the delivery of said deed, with Samuel Neill as the agent of the other grantors in the deed, that the said Chessen was not to have the rent of the premises mentioned in the deed, during the unexpired term of said lease (lease referred to by witness Bering), and that the plaintiff Chessen purchased the land upon that consideration. Objection was made and the court sustained the objection.\nThe defendant\u2019s counsel also offered to prove by the witness Caldwell, that the said Neill was to have the crop of wheat for 1882, or until the expiration of the lease of the land to Jacob Soring, and that the land referred to in the agreement of the 3d of November, 1881, was the same land as that described in the deed.\nObjection was made and the court sustained the objection.\nAppellants excepted to the ruling of the court in refusing to hear the evidence.' The court erred in refusing to allow the written agreement to go in evidence. It was competent as a part of the contract, and it was proper to admit in evidence verbal statements, showing the connection, if any, between the written agreement and the deed.\nWhen two instruments are executed as parts of the same transaction and agreement, whether at the same or different times, they will be taken and construed together. Stacey v. Randall, 17 Ill. 467; Reed v. Ellis et al., 68 Ill. 206.\nThe consideration passing between the parties to a deed may be shown to be different from that expressed on the face of the deed. Kimball v. Walker, 30 Ill. 482; Primm v. Legg, 67 Ill. 500; Booth v. Hynes, 54 Ill. 363.\nThe contract of the 3d of November shows the entire agreement of the parties in regard to the sale and purchase of the land.\nThe deed was not in conflict therewith, but was simply carrying into effect one of the provisions of the contract.\nIt is true that when a party sells lands that aie held by another by virtue of a lease, the grantee in the deed is entitled to recover the rents accruing after the execution and delivery of the deed, unless the rents are reserved by the grantor.\nBut the reservation need not be expressed on the face of the deed. It \u00a1ility be shown as in this case by introducing the contract iu regard to the sale of the land. This argument shows that \u201c Neill is to have the crop of wheat for the year 1882, or until the expiration of the lease of Jacob Senng\u201d In arriving at the intention of the parties or the true meaning of the contract the agreement and the deed should be considered together, as well as all the circumstances in proof. Stacey v. Randall, supra.\nThe fourth error assigned is that the court erred in rendering judgment against all the defendants, whereas there is no evidence showing any indebtedness or liability on the part of Lady Neill, Joseph R. Neill and Emma Neill; as we have said the count relied upon in this case for a recovery is for money had and received.\nThere is no evidence in the record that any money was paid to the defendant for the use of the plaintiff. It is well settled that there must be some privity between the parties before this action can be sustained. In 1 Wheaton Selwyn 104, it is said: \u201cIn order to sustain an action for money had and received there must be privity between the plaintiff and defendant. The law raises no implied promise upon which an action can be maintained in respect of money had and received, from the mere fact of one man\u2019s money having come into the possession of another.\u201d\nIt is necessary to maintain this action that a certain amount of money belonging to one person should have improperly come into the hands of another, and that there should bes\u00f3me privity between them. 3 Addison on Contracts, Sec. 1408.\nWhen the money was delivered to the defendant for a particular purpose to which he refused to apply it, he can not apply it to any other, but it may be recovered back by the depositor under the count for money had and received. If it was placed in his hands to be piid over to a third person, which he agreed to do, such person assenting thereto may sue for it as money had and received to his own use. But if the defendant did not so consent to appropriate it, it is otherwise, there being no privity between them, and the action will lie only by him who placed the money in his hands. 2 Greenleaf, Sec. lie.\nThe person who receives money as his own from an execntor, who pays it under a mistaken interpretation of the will, is not liable to an action for money liad and received by a person who was entitled under the will to receive it. Moore v. Moore, 127 Mass. 22; Rand v. Smallidge, 130 Mass. 337; Trumbull v. Campbell, 3 Gil. 502; Hall v. Carpen, 27 Ill. 386; Carpen v. Hall, 29 Ill. 512.\nAs to the appellants, Lady Neill, Joseph R. Neill and Emma Neill, as we have already stated, there is no evidence whatever in the record showing that any money was paid by Bering to Murray for their use and benefit, or that they ever received any money as the rents or a part of the rents of the premises in question, or that Murray or Samuel Neill was their agent, so that in no event could the judgment in this case against them be sustained on the evidence as it now appears in the record.\nIt is also insisted by counsel for appellants, that the judgment in this case was informal and defective, and we are referred to the case of Bowden v. Bowden, 75 Ill. 111, in support of the view of counsel.\nIn view of the fact that the cause is to be heard again in the circuit court, we do not see that it is necessary to discuss that branch of the case.\nThe judgment of the circuit court is reversed and the cause remanded.\nReversed and remanded.", "type": "majority", "author": "Casey, P. J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Mr. J. H. Yager, for appellants;", "Mr. James E. Dcnnegan and Messrs. Wise & Davis, for appellee;" ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Samuel Neill et al. v. James Chessen.\n1. Consideration op deed.\u2014The consideration passing between the parties to a deed may be shown to be different from that expressed on the face of the deed.\n2. Construction op contract.\u2014When two instruments are executed as parts of the same transaction and agreement, whether at the same or different times, they will be taken and construed together.\n3. Evidence\u2014Sale Op land\u2014Reservation op rent.\u2014When a party sells land that is held bv another by virtue of a lease, the grantee in the deed is entitled to recover the rents accruing after the execution and delivery of the deed, unless the rents are reserved by the grantor. But such reservation need not be expressed on the face of the deed. It may be shown by introducing the contract in regard to the sale of the land and in arriving at the intention or true meaning of the parties, the agreement and the deed should be considered together as well as all the circumstances in proof.\n4. Action for money had and received\u2014Privity.\u2014In order to sustain an action for money had and received there must be privity between the plain tilt and defendant. The law raises no implied prom se upon which an action can be maintained in respect of money had and received from the mere fact of one man's money having come into the possession of another.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Wm. H. Snyder, Judge, presiding.\nOpinion filed October 10, 1884.\nMr. J. H. Yager, for appellants;\nthat it is competent to show a different consideration from the one stated in the deed as between the parties, cited Kinzie v. Penrose, 2 Scam. 519; Ayers v. McConnell, 15 Ill. 232; Kimball v. Walker, 30 Ill. 482; Booth v. Hynes, 54 Ill. 363; Primm v. Legg, 67 Ill. 500; Brown v. Pitney, 39 Ill. 468.\nMr. James E. Dcnnegan and Messrs. Wise & Davis, for appellee;\nthat where a party, selling leased lands, conveys the fee and makes no reservation of the rent, the accruing rent goes to the grantee of the fee, cited Crosby v. Loop, 13 Ill. 625; Dixon v. Niccolls, 39 Ill. 384.\nThe warranty deed given by appellants to appellee supersedes all their prior negotiations and agreements in relation to the purchase of the land: Ely v. Ely, 80 Ill. 532." }, "file_name": "0266-01", "first_page_order": 270, "last_page_order": 275 }