Holbrook v. Fellows
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Will county; the Hon. Jesse O. Norton, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the court below by Edmund S. Holbrook against Mathias L. Cook, and Ellen Fellows was let in to defend as landlord. A trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff brings the case hero upon writ of error.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Will county; the Hon. Jesse O. Norton, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment instituted in the court below by Edmund S. Holbrook against Mathias L. Cook, and Ellen Fellows was let in to defend as landlord. A trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff brings the case hero upon writ of error. The only question arising in the case is, whether it is essential to the admissibility of a tax deed in evidence, that there should be proof of notice given to the person in whose name the land was taxed, informing him of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
This was an action of ejectment, brought by Holbrook against one Cook, for the recovery of a lot of ground in the City of Joliet. On an application made to the court, defendant in error was, as landlord of Cook,.admitted to defend the suit. On the trial below, plaintiff in error produced and read in evidence a patent to James B. Campbell for the land ; a certified copy of a decree of the District Court of the United States for the State of Illinois, declaring Campbell a bankrupt, and appointing William C. Bostwick his assignee; also the fifty-first rule in Bankruptcy regulating sales of real…
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