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  "name": "Caroline Smith, Admx. et al. v. Nancy E. Gallentin et al.",
  "name_abbreviation": "Smith v. Gallentin",
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      "Caroline Smith, Admx. et al. v. Nancy E. Gallentin et al."
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Cartwright\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThis is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Whiteside county for the specific performance of a written contract for the sale of certain lands in that county, in which the court found the balance due on the contract to be \u00a7395.45.\nThe jurisdiction of this court is to be determined by the questions involved in the appeal, and although a freehold may have been originally involved in the suit and in the decree rendered, yet if no objection is made to the decree so far as it settles the right to a conveyance of the freehold upon payment of the amount due, and the only objection is to the settlement by the court of the matters of account, an appeal will not lie from the circuit court to this court, but it must be taken to the Appellate Court. The only question raised on this appeal is the correctness of the finding that there was but \u00a7395.45 due, and that the circuit court erred in not finding a larger amount to be due. The making of the contract and the right to a conveyance upon payment of whatever may be justly due is conceded, and therefore the appeal does not involve a freehold, but only the settlement of accounts. Cheney v. Teese, 113 Ill. 444; Walker v. Pritchard, 121 id. 221; Malaers v. Hudgens, 130id. 225; Moore v. Williams, 132 id. 591.\nThe appeal is dismissed.\nApp&a dismM",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Cartwright"
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    "attorneys": [
      "F. E. Andrews, for appellants.",
      "J. E. McPherran, for appellees."
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    "head_matter": "Caroline Smith, Admx. et al. v. Nancy E. Gallentin et al.\nOpinion filed February 14, 1898.\nAppeals and errors\u2014when appeal from decree requiring conveyance of land lies to Appellate Court. An appeal from a decree requiring specific performance of a contract to convey land upon payment of the amount due, lies to the Appellate Court, where the making of the contract and the right to conveyance are conceded, the only objection being that the decree finds a wrong amount due.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Whiteside county; the Hon. J. C. Gar ver, Judge, presiding.\nF. E. Andrews, for appellants.\nJ. E. McPherran, for appellees."
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