Legal Opinion

VanTassell v. Wakefield

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 21, 1905PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. N. E. Worthington, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from an order or decree, based upon a petition filed by leave of court in an ejectment suit, by the terms of which it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the present appellant, Robert VanTassell, plaintiff in said ejectment suit, “shall and may have the option of paying the said petitioner, William Wakefield, for said improvements mentioned in the foregoing…

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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. N. E. Worthington, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from an order or decree, based upon a petition filed by leave of court in an ejectment suit, by the terms of which it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the present appellant, Robert VanTassell, plaintiff in said ejectment suit, “shall and may have the option of paying the said petitioner, William Wakefield, for said improvements mentioned in the foregoing findings, .the sum of $5755-00 upon giving said petitioner or his attorney within ten days of the date of this order, written…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder

The order or decree, from which the present appeal is taken, was entered in a proceeding begun by petition, which is a part of the ejectment suit heretofore decided by this court, and reported as Wakefield v. VanTassell, 202 Ill. 41. The facts involved in the ejectment suit are set forth in Wakefield v. VanTassell, supra, and need not be here repeated. The decision as made by this court in that case, held that the conditions or .restrictions in the deed executed by appellant, Robert VanTassell, to Adam J. Best, under whom the present appellee, William Wakefield, holds, were valid. When the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Ross v. IrvingIllinois Supreme Court · 1852
  2. Wakefield v. VanTassellIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
  3. Cable v. EllisIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
  4. Malaer v. HudgensIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
  5. Meter v. ThomasIllinois Supreme Court · 1894

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Barrs v. State Ex Rel. BrittSupreme Court of Florida · 1928
  2. Wakefield v. VanTassellIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
  3. Hopwood v. GreenIllinois Supreme Court · 1940
  4. Olin v. ReineckeIllinois Supreme Court · 1926
  5. Schwitters v. BarnesIllinois Supreme Court · 1910

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