Ennor v. Thompson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jo Daviess county; the Hon. Benjamin R. Sheldon, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by George Thompson, the appellee, against William Ennor, the appellant, William B. Green and William Fiddick, in the Oircuit Court of Jo Daviess county. The land in controversy is described as the éast half of the north-east quarter of section 85, town. 29, north range 1 east, and was claimed in fee and as a homestead.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jo Daviess county; the Hon. Benjamin R. Sheldon, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by George Thompson, the appellee, against William Ennor, the appellant, William B. Green and William Fiddick, in the Oircuit Court of Jo Daviess county. The land in controversy is described as the éast half of the north-east quarter of section 85, town. 29, north range 1 east, and was claimed in fee and as a homestead. The bill sets out a deed of trust for said lands, to William B. Green, dated April 7, 1855, to secure a note of $300, of same date, due George…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
The court below committed no error in suppressing the deposition of Henry C. Park. By. that deposition, appellant attempted to amend a defective acknowledgment to the deed of trust executed by appellee, for the premises in controversy, to appellant. It is an attempt to prove by parol what appellee’s wife did acknowledge when she was before the justice of the peace, outside of the certificate attached to the deed. The statute has required, that all that is essential to an acknowledgment shall appear in the certificate, to bar the wife’s dower, and such is the construction given to the…
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