Bowen v. Prout
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Bureau county; the Hon. Edwin S. Leland, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment brought by Prout against. Bowen and another, to recover the undivided three-fifths of the north east quarter of section seventeen, in township number fifteen north, of range six east, in Bureau county.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Bureau county; the Hon. Edwin S. Leland, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment brought by Prout against. Bowen and another, to recover the undivided three-fifths of the north east quarter of section seventeen, in township number fifteen north, of range six east, in Bureau county. In one of the deeds in the chain of title sought to be established by the plaintiff, a deed from Jonathan Prout and others to Robert Front, the description of the lands was as follows: “the following tracts or parcels of land, all of which lying and being in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
This was an action of ejectment, brought by defendant in error to recover the undivided three-fourths of a quarter section of land, against plaintiffs in error.
Subsequently, the declaration was so amended as to claim an undivided four-fifths. After a trial was had, and a recovery by defendant in error, a new trial was had, and there was filed ' a new count, claiming the undivided three-fifths, and Strong was made a defendant. The plea of the general issue was filed to the amended declaration.
On the trial in the court below, defendant in error produced and read in evidence a connected chain of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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