Sands v. Wacaser
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Piatt county; the Hon. Francis M. Wright, Judge, presiding. This was ejectment, by appellee, against appellants, trustees, and the Indianapolis, Decatur and Western Bailroad Company, to recover a strip of land fifty feet wide off of the south side of the north-east quarter of section 36, township 16, north, range 5, east of the third principal meridian, in Piatt county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Piatt county; the Hon. Francis M. Wright, Judge, presiding. This was ejectment, by appellee, against appellants, trustees, and the Indianapolis, Decatur and Western Bailroad Company, to recover a strip of land fifty feet wide off of the south side of the north-east quarter of section 36, township 16, north, range 5, east of the third principal meridian, in Piatt county. The ease was heard by the court without a jury, upon facts stipulated by the parties, and an agreement introduced under the stipulation, entered into by John S. Hayward, and Henrietta Hayward,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shope
The Indiana arid Illinois Central Railroad Company, of which it is stipulated the appellant company was the legal successor, in 1872 entered upon the tract of land in dispute and built thereon its railway, under an agreement entered into by the owners of the land in 1854. By that agreement, under the hands and seals of the owners, they agreed, for the consideration therein named, to convey to the said .Indiana and Illinois Central Railroad Company, within one year, by quitclaim deed containing a covenant of warranty as against all persons claiming under them, a strip of land one hundred feet…
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