Chilvers v. Race
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles G. Neely, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for partition in the circuit court of Cook county, filed by plaintiff in error Mary C. Chilvers, widow of Robert Chilvers, deceased, alleging that she is the owner of the undivided half of the real estate described in the bill.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles G. Neely, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for partition in the circuit court of Cook county, filed by plaintiff in error Mary C. Chilvers, widow of Robert Chilvers, deceased, alleging that she is the owner of the undivided half of the real estate described in the bill. It appears from the evidence and pleadings that Robert Chilvers, about the year 1850, purchased a forty-acre farm in DuPage county, on which he lived until he moved to Chicago, ten or twelve years later, and rented his farm to William Reader. In 1853 he…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
The principal contentions of plaintiffs in error are, first, that the trust deeds were never delivered; and second, that they are invalid even if delivered. It appears from the deeds themselves that they were signed and sealed by Chilvers, the grantor, and Taylor, the grantee and trustee. They purport to have been signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of W. H. Davis. They were acknowledged by both Chilvers and Taylor, the notary certifying, in the statutory form, that they acknowledged that they signed, sealed and delivered them, and the certificate of the recorder shows they were…
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