Tully v. Davis
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of ejectment, brought bythe appellant against the appellee, in Brown Circuit Court, for the recovery of the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section four, in Township one south, Range three west of the fourth principal meridian, and removed, by change of venue, to Adams county, and placed upon the docket of the Circuit Court of that county, on the 30th of May, 1861. Transcript from Brown county filed in Adams Circuit Court, May 30, 1861.…
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This was an action of ejectment, brought bythe appellant against the appellee, in Brown Circuit Court, for the recovery of the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section four, in Township one south, Range three west of the fourth principal meridian, and removed, by change of venue, to Adams county, and placed upon the docket of the Circuit Court of that county, on the 30th of May, 1861. Transcript from Brown county filed in Adams Circuit Court, May 30, 1861. Declaration and plea from said Brown Circuit Court, and in the usual form, filed in Adams Circuit Court, at the time of…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
The only question in the case is as to the sufficiency of the following certificate of acknowledgment to a deed offered in evidence by the plaintiff:
“STATE OE ILLINOIS, )
SCHUYKEK COUNTY, ) ss
“This day, personally appeared before the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for said county, Henry M. Trabue, who is personally to said justice to be the real person who executed the foregoing deed of conveyance, and who there, before said justice, acknowledged that he signed, sealed and delivered said deed, freely and voluntarily, for the uses and purposes therein contained.
“ Given under my hand…
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