Peters v. Balke
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the .Hon. C. G. Neely, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the .Hon. C. G. Neely, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court in favor of the appellee, affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county also in favor of the appellee, rendered in an action of forcible entry and de-' tainer, commenced before a justice of the peace and tried in the circuit court on appeal from the judgment in the justice court, which was against the appellant. The trial in the circuit court was before a jury.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The questions involved in this case are chiefly questions of law, arising out of the action of the circuit court in overruling the objections, made by the appellant in the trial below to the introduction of the deeds, described in the statement preceding this opinion, and in refusing the instructions asked by the appellant.
First—The chief objections, made to the deeds, were that their introduction raised a question of title, such as cannot be adjudicated in an action of forcible entry and detainer; and that Gloeckler, the trustee and grantor in the second deed, had no authority, under the…
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