Sheldon v. Van Vleck
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Jairus C. Sheldon, against Charles H. VanVleck and Frank VanVleck, in the circuit court of Champaign county, to recover a tract of land consisting of forty acres. The court, to which the cause was submitted for trial, without the intervention of a jury, found the issues for defendants, and rendered final judgment against plaintiff.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Jairus C. Sheldon, against Charles H. VanVleck and Frank VanVleck, in the circuit court of Champaign county, to recover a tract of land consisting of forty acres. The court, to which the cause was submitted for trial, without the intervention of a jury, found the issues for defendants, and rendered final judgment against plaintiff. To reverse that judgment, plaintiff brings the case to this court, on appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
Both parties claim the title to the land involved in this litigation that was in Otho Hays. Through mesne conveyances the title that was in him came to defendants, and is the paramount title, unless it has been cut off by sales under two fee-bills that came to the hands of the sheriff making the sales, from the circuit court, by which he was commanded to sell the property of Otho Hays in satisfaction of such fee-bills. After the fee-bills came to the hands of the sheriff, he caused both of them to be levied on the tract of land in controversy, and on the 30th day of November, 1867, by virtue…
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