Lavalle v. Strobel
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William H. Snyder,,. Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment by Francis Lavalle, supervisor of the village of Cahokia, against Nicholas Strobel, for lot 303 of the Cahokia commons, which lot embraces the entire plat of Illinois City, which consists of 964 lots of equal size, numbered from 1 to 964, its streets, avenues, alleys, public square, a Protestant and a Catholic graveyard, located in the town plat.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William H. Snyder,,. Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment by Francis Lavalle, supervisor of the village of Cahokia, against Nicholas Strobel, for lot 303 of the Cahokia commons, which lot embraces the entire plat of Illinois City, which consists of 964 lots of equal size, numbered from 1 to 964, its streets, avenues, alleys, public square, a Protestant and a Catholic graveyard, located in the town plat. By agreement the controversy was confined to lot 32 of Illinois City. The plaintiff relied on section 5 of the act of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
There was a village on a portion of the Cahokia commons, on the 18th day of September, 1817, and residing therein about fifty families. Some fifty-two of the male residents of the place, on that date, executed a power of attorney to Nicholas Jarrot, Jesse B. Thomas, John Hay, John Hays and Francis Turcotte, to lay out a town on a part of the common east of the village of Cahokia, and to make a plat of the same; and to petition Congress to grant the “ fee simple right” to so much of the commons as would embrace the town thus laid out; and to distribute among them their several shares as these…
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