Spellman v. Curtenius
Illinois Supreme Court
This action of ejectment was tried at the March term, 1850, of the Peoria Circuit Court, before Kellogg, Judge, and a jury, and resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff below. The defendants below, sued out this writ of error. The lot sought to be recovered, was number four, in block fifty, of Bigelow and Underhill’s Addition to Peoria. The judgment against the land for taxes is in the following form.
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This action of ejectment was tried at the March term, 1850, of the Peoria Circuit Court, before Kellogg, Judge, and a jury, and resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff below. The defendants below, sued out this writ of error. The lot sought to be recovered, was number four, in block fifty, of Bigelow and Underhill’s Addition to Peoria. The judgment against the land for taxes is in the following form. “ Whereas Julius A. Johnson, collector of said county, returned to the Circuit Court of said county, on the 28th day of May, A. D. 1845, the following tracts or parts of tracts of…
1Opinion of the CourtTrumbull, J.
This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of lot number four, in block number fifty-one, In Bigelow and Underhill’s Addition to the Town of Peoria.
Curtenius, who was plaintiff in the Court below, gave in evidence, a certificate of the register of the land office at Quincy, showing the entry by John L. Bogardus, on the fifteenth of November, 1837, of the south-east fractional quarter of section number nine, in township number eight north, of range number eight east of the fourth principal meridian, proved the laying off of said fractional quarter into town lots, that…
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