Kibbe v. Dunn
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Illinois
[This was an action of ejectment for the recovery of a quarter section of land in Mercer county, Ill., brought by George A. Kibbe .against Amos Dunn. William M. O’Hara, the owner of the fee of the tract in controversy, died intestate in 1S21, leaving four .children. Three of them died intestate, and Helen, the surviving daughter, inherited •their respective interests.
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[This was an action of ejectment for the recovery of a quarter section of land in Mercer county, Ill., brought by George A. Kibbe .against Amos Dunn. William M. O’Hara, the owner of the fee of the tract in controversy, died intestate in 1S21, leaving four .children. Three of them died intestate, and Helen, the surviving daughter, inherited •their respective interests. She intermarried in 1840 with Abram D. Harrel, who died in 1871. Said Abram and Helen, in 1868, conveyed the demanded premises to the , plaintiff. ' The defendants claim by a chain of title derived from the foreclosure of a…
1Opinion of the Court
HOPKINS, District Judge,
after relating the facts and charging the jury as to the main issues substantially the same as Blod-gett, J., in the preceding case,-Kibbe v. Thompson [Case No. 7,754],-and also to the effect that, regardless of the decree offered in evidence, the defendants as' mortgagees in possession were entitled to prevail, further instructed the jury as follows on the only phase of the case different from that one.
The record produced in the case of Kibbe v. Thompson [supra], and other cases, tried before Judge Blodgett, was imperfect. It was apparent that it was not all…
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