Walker v. Doane
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— •and also writ of error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— •and also writ of error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Egbert Jamieson, Judge, presiding. On the 4th day of April, 1881, Martha A. Walker exhibited her bill in the Superior Court of Cook county, against George C. Band, John W. Doane, Samuel 0. Walker, Edward S. Walker, Augustus L. Chetlain, Charles Fargo, Charles E. Brown, Thomas Brown and Henry G. Tucker, to have her ■dower assigned in lots 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, block 9, Fort Dearborn Addition to Chicago. The bill alleged the complainant’s marriage with Martin 0.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
That this case involves a freehold, within the meaning of the statute fixing and limiting the jurisdiction of the Appellate-Courts, can not admit of serious question. The primary object of the suit was the recovery of a freehold. The original bill was filed by the complainant to obtain her dower in six lots of land in the city of Chicago of which her husband died seized, and dower, being an estate for the life of the tenant,, is a freehold estate. 1 Washb. on Real Prop. (2d ed.) 254; 2 Black. Com. 119, 129. It is true that as to five of the lots the complainant’s right to dower was not…
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