Ruch v. Rock Island
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
Ejectment [by John Ruch against the city of Rock Island] for a block of laud in Spencer & Case’s addition to the town of Stephenson, the former name of Rock Island. The defendant claimed by virtue of an alleged dedication.
1Opinion of the Court
DRU1IMOND, District Judge
(charging jury). Jonah H. Case and a Mr. Spencer were, in May, 1S36, the claimants to a certain tract of land within the present corporate limits of the city of Rock Island, and on the 17th of that month, laid off a town upon it and recorded the plat in Rock Island county, which was called “Spencer & Case’s Addition to the Town of Stephenson” (the former name of the city of Rock Island). On the 21st day of May, 1836, one of the parties entered the land, and became the purchaser from the United States. The plat, as recorded, represents a town bordering upon the…
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