Owen v. Robbins
Illinois Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM COOK COUNTY COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. Emily Owen filed her petition in the Cook county Court of Common Pleas, on the 23rd day of December, A. D. 1855, to have her dower assigned to her in block No. 105, and block No. 108, in school section addition to Chicago.
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APPEAL PROM COOK COUNTY COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. Emily Owen filed her petition in the Cook county Court of Common Pleas, on the 23rd day of December, A. D. 1855, to have her dower assigned to her in block No. 105, and block No. 108, in school section addition to Chicago. In her petition she alleges that she was married to Thomas J. Y. Owen in the year 1823, and that they lived together as husband and wife until the 14th of October, 1835, when the said Thomas died, leaving him surviving, the petitioner and Thomas Owen, aged eleven years, William Owen, aged eight years, George Owen, aged four…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was a petition for assignment of dower by plaintiff against defendants, commenced in the Cook county Court of Common Pleas, on the 23rd December, 1855. The dower is claimed in blocks 105 and 108 in school section addition to the city of Chicago. It was admitted on the trial below, on the agreed facts, that the petitioner is the widow of Thomas J. Y. Owen, deceased, and that they were married in 1823, and lived together as husband and wife until the 14th of October, 1835, when the said Owen departed this life; that he, in October, 1832, at a sale made by the commissioner of school lands,…
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