McIntosh v. Saunders
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Jackson county; the Hon. Monroe C. Crawford, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Mary L. Saunders against Catharine McIntosh, heir at law of William McIntosh, deceased, to correct a deed executed by the latter in 1823, to one J. Richardson. The opinion states all the facts necessary to an understanding of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was a bill in equity, filed March 3, 1869, for the correction of an alleged mistake in a deed executed some time in the year 1823, the premises having been mistakenly described as the northwest, instead of the southeast, quarter of a certain section of land.
There was a decree for complainant, and defendant brings the record here by a writ of error.
The point which has been chiefly discussed by counsel for plaintiff in error, as ground of error, is the insufficiency of the evidence to support the decree.
This is a question which does not arise upon this record.
The decree shows that the…
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