Lewis v. Barnhart
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Ejectment. The court stated the case as follows: These actions of ejectment were brought in the year 1889. The lands in controversy are parts of a larger tract of sixteen hundred acres inWoodford County, Illinois, entered by Eomeo Lewis, in the year 1838 at the Land Office in Springfield, in that State, and of which ,he was seized in fee, by a patent from the United States, at the date of…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Ejectment. The court stated the case as follows: These actions of ejectment were brought in the year 1889. The lands in controversy are parts of a larger tract of sixteen hundred acres inWoodford County, Illinois, entered by Eomeo Lewis, in the year 1838 at the Land Office in Springfield, in that State, and of which ,he was seized in fee, by a patent from the United States, at the date of his will, January 8, 1842, as well as when he died, at his residence in Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, on the" 24th day of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
By the statutes of Illinois in force when the will of Romeo Lewis was made and took effect, it was provided that “ in cases where, by the common law, any person' or persons might hereafter become seized in fee tail of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, by virtue of any devise, gift, grant, or other conveyance, hereafter to be made, or by any other means whatsoever, such person or persons, instead of being or becoming seized thereof in fee tail, shall be deemed amd adjudged to be and become seized thereof, for his or her natural life only, and the remainder shall pass in fee simple…
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