Holbrook v. Nichol
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, commenced in the Circuit Court of Tazewell county, by Edmund S. Holbrook, against John Nichol, to recover the west half of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-five, in Township twenty-five north, of Range five west, situate in that county. Benjamin S. Prettyman came in to defend, as landlord of Wichol.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Woodford county; the Hon. S. L. Richmond, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, commenced in the Circuit Court of Tazewell county, by Edmund S. Holbrook, against John Nichol, to recover the west half of the north-east quarter of Section thirty-five, in Township twenty-five north, of Range five west, situate in that county. Benjamin S. Prettyman came in to defend, as landlord of Wichol. The cause was removed into the Circuit Court of Woodford county, upon change of venue, where a trial was had at the December term, 1863, resulting in a verdict…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
It is claimed by plaintiff in error that he, by sufficient evidence in the court below, established the fact, that one James B. Campbell was the owner in fee of the premises in controversy in the year 1835. That he derived title by a conveyance from one Caldren. And that Campbell, whilst still the owner of the premises, afterwards, in the year 1842, was declared a bankrupt in the United States District Court for the State of Illinois, and the lands in dispute were sold by his assignee in 1850, to plaintiff in error. On the contrary, it is claimed by defendants in error, that Campbell, at the…
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