Lyman v. Russell
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. Charles R. Starr, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Jonathan J. Lyman, the plaintiff in error, in the Circuit Court of Iroquois county, against Lucy Russell, Frank Russell, and Lora Russell, heirs of William E. Russell, deceased, setting forth that on the 27th day of June, 1855, one William Bandy sold and conveyed to Samuel Lyman the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of section…
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Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. Charles R. Starr, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Jonathan J. Lyman, the plaintiff in error, in the Circuit Court of Iroquois county, against Lucy Russell, Frank Russell, and Lora Russell, heirs of William E. Russell, deceased, setting forth that on the 27th day of June, 1855, one William Bandy sold and conveyed to Samuel Lyman the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of section 25, town 28 north, range 13 west; and that said Samuel Lyman took and continued in the actual possession until February…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
The object of the bill filed in this cause was to set aside a certain mortgage, and all proceedings under it, made by William Bandy and wife to O. L. Davis, on the 20th of January, 1858, on the .allegation, that, before the execution of this mortgage, Bandy and wife had sold and conveyed the same land to Samuel Lyman on the 27th of July, 1855, and that he, and those claiming under him, had been in the actual, open, notorious and visible possession of the same ever since, and was so in possession at the date of the execution of the mortgage.
There is proof showing, that, soon after the purchase…
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