McCoy v. Morrow
Illinois Supreme Court
This suit was brought by the plaintiff to recover the possession of the undivided half of the south-east quarter of section number twenty, in township number eleven, north of the base line of range number seven east of the fourth principal meridian, in Peoria county.
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This suit was brought by the plaintiff to recover the possession of the undivided half of the south-east quarter of section number twenty, in township number eleven, north of the base line of range number seven east of the fourth principal meridian, in Peoria county. It was agreed between the parties to this suit that the said plaintiff claims title to the undivided half of said land, under the following described chain of title, viz.: - Patent from the United States to Allen Sterdevant, dated December 15th. 1817. A deed from Allen Sterdevant to Ebenezer T. "Warren, dated August 11th, 1818,…
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an action of ejectment, in which the plaintiff below claimed the undivided half of S. E. 20, 11 N., 7 E., in Peoria county.
The cause was tried upon an agreed state of facts, without the intervention of a jury, and the plaintiff recovered the interest in the land claimed. The facts agreed are, that Ebenezer T. Warren, in 1830, died seized m fee, of the quarter section of land, leaving John and Ann Warren his sole heirs; that Ann, in 1849, conveyed her interest therein to Henry Warren, which conveyance was recorded in Peoria county, in March, 1855; that Henry Warren, in 1854, conveyed…
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