Frew v. Taylor

This appeal brings before us for review the record of a judgment of the Ford circuit court, in an action of ejectment, wherein appellee was plaintiff and appellant was defendant. On the trial it was admitted by appellant that the United States conveyed the tract of land in controversy to the Illinois Central Railroad Company; that that company conveyed the same to James Mix, on the 30th of April, 1870, and that he conveyed the same to appellee on the 1st of November, 1879. There is, therefore, no question as to the completeness and sufficiency of appellee’s chain of title, unless it has been…