Legal Opinion

City of Bloomington v. Bloomington Cemetery Ass'n

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided September 27, 1888PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Owen T. Beeves, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey

This was'an action of ejectment, brought by the Blooming-ton Cemetery Association against the City of Bloomington, to recover a tract of land situate in the county of McLean, and described as follows: Commencing on the half-section line running east and west through section 9, township 23, north, of range 2, east of the third principal meridian, at a point five chains east of the center of said section, being the same point where stood the west end of a fence built about the year 1858 as the boundary line between the lands of Linus Graves and John E. McClun, thence north thirteen feet to a…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Smith v. HamiltonMichigan Supreme Court · 1870
  2. Cutler v. CallisonIllinois Supreme Court · 1874
  3. Yates v. ShawIllinois Supreme Court · 1860
  4. McIntyre v. StoreyIllinois Supreme Court · 1875

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Deidrich v. SimmonsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
  2. Steinhilber v. HolmesSupreme Court of Kansas · 1904
  3. Coburn v. San Mateo CountyU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California · 1896
  4. People Ex Rel. Markgraff v. RosenfieldIllinois Supreme Court · 1943
  5. Bloomington Cemetery Ass'n v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1891

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