Young v. Lorain
Illinois Supreme Court
This suit was commenced in the Circuit and taken by change of venue by consent to Jo Daviess County Court. Heard before Hugh T. Dickey, Judge, and a jury, at January term, A. D. 1850. Declaration with three counts.
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This suit was commenced in the Circuit and taken by change of venue by consent to Jo Daviess County Court. Heard before Hugh T. Dickey, Judge, and a jury, at January term, A. D. 1850. Declaration with three counts. The first count sets forth the seizin in fee of said Alexander Young and Elizabeth his wife, of the one undivided half, in the right of the said wife, of the north half of lot five, and south half of lot six, both in block twenty-nine, on the east side of Fevre river, in the city of Galena, county of Jo Daviess, and state of Illinois 5 and also the seizin in fee of said Julia Ann…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Mr. Justice Catón :
We will dispose of the questions arising in this case, in the order in which they have been presented upon the argument. On the 23d of May, 1840, Mr. McDowell, the former guardian of Elizabeth and Julia Ann, presented to the Probate Court a resignation of his guardianship, which that Court accepted, and revoked his letters of guardianship, and appointed Thomas Drum guardian of the same wards. It is objected that the former guardian had no right to resign; that the Probate Court could not legally accept his resignation and appoint a successor, and that hence the…
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