Shortall v. Hinckley
Illinois Supreme Court
Weit op Eeeoe to the Superior Court of Chicago. This was an action of ejectment instituted by Shortall against Hinckley, on the twenty-second day of February, A. D. 1861. The declaration contained three counts. First count. For an undivided .three-sixths, in fee simple, of a certain part of lot number fifteen, in block number one hundred and thirty-eight, in the School Section Addition to the city of Chicago. Second count.
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Weit op Eeeoe to the Superior Court of Chicago. This was an action of ejectment instituted by Shortall against Hinckley, on the twenty-second day of February, A. D. 1861. The declaration contained three counts. First count. For an undivided .three-sixths, in fee simple, of a certain part of lot number fifteen, in block number one hundred and thirty-eight, in the School Section Addition to the city of Chicago. Second count. For another undivided two-sixths, in fee simple, of the same parcel. Third count. For a life estate for the life of Hibbard Porter in one other undivided one-sixth of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justioe "WalKek
delivered the opinion of the Court.
There was no disability existing to prevent Mehitabel and "W. P. Gilson, from instituting proceedings to recover their undivided interests in these premises, during the time they were the owners of the property. Nor did any exist to prevent plaintiff in error, after bis purchase, and before the seven years of actual possession, and payment of taxes, under claim and color of title, by Starkweather, had expired. He, it appeal’s, entered into, and held the possession of. the premises, under claim and color of title, for the period of…
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