Holmes v. Deppert

The plaintiff brought ejectment, and appeals from an adverse verdict. The court left two questions to the jury, viz., whether the widow had a life estate-in the premises, and whether the land described in the declaration was susceptible of location. The plaintiff claims that a verdict should have been directed in his favor. The declaration describes the land claimed as the-undivided one-fifth of that part of the “Lambert-Beaubien Farm,” so called,—

“Described as follows, and being all the land and premises between Illinois street on the south and Leland street on the north, and between…