Wiggins v. Chance
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion county; the Hon. Silas L. Beyan, Judge, presiding. One of the questions arising in this case is, whether the owner of premises which he had occupied as a homestead, had abandoned the same in such manner as to lose his homestead right The testimony on that subject was as follows: One Nicholson, called by the party resisting the homestead claim, testified that the owner of the premises rented them to him in 1862, for three years, and in…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Marion county; the Hon. Silas L. Beyan, Judge, presiding. One of the questions arising in this case is, whether the owner of premises which he had occupied as a homestead, had abandoned the same in such manner as to lose his homestead right The testimony on that subject was as follows: One Nicholson, called by the party resisting the homestead claim, testified that the owner of the premises rented them to him in 1862, for three years, and in the fall of that year moved with his family to Centralia, a town in the same county, and returned, resuming his…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
This was an action brought before a justice of the peace, for a trespass to land by cutting timber. The case was appealed to the circuit court. A jury having been waived, a trial was. had by the court by consent, when the court rendered a judgment in favor of appellee, for five dollars and costs.
It appears that appellee entered the land in 1854, and has. occupied it since that time, except a short period when he was absent laboring to earn money to pay his debts, but intending to return again, which he did. It appears that the two tracts lie adjoining, and a part of each is under fence, and…
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