President & Trustees of Commons v. McClure
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Randolph county; the Hon. George W. Wall, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment to recover, as a part of the commons belonging to the inhabitants of Kaskaskia, a portion of an island in the Mississippi river called Brewer’s or McClure’s Island.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Randolph county; the Hon. George W. Wall, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment to recover, as a part of the commons belonging to the inhabitants of Kaskaskia, a portion of an island in the Mississippi river called Brewer’s or McClure’s Island. Plaintiffs claimed title under an old French grant of which no known record exists, but which, in 1743, was confirmed to them by grant or patent by Vaudreuil, then the French Governor of the province of Louisiana. This patent, as shown by the record, was as follows: “Pierre de Rigault de Vaudreuil,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiffs in error, to recover from the defendant in error the following lands in Randolph county, to-wit: The east half of out-lot 1 of the commons of Kaskaskia, lying south of third and fourth surveys of said commons, containing two hundred acres, being part of an island in the Mississippi river. The case was tried before the court without a jury, and judgment was rendered for the defendant. Plaintiffs bring the cause to this court by writ of error.
It is in the first place contended by defendant in error that the land in controversy is not in…
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