Purtle v. Bell
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oE Error to the Circuit Court of Monroe county; the Hon. B. R. Burroughs, Judge, presiding. This is an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Monroe county, brought by defendant in error against plaintiff in error, to recover possession of a strip of land thirteen and one-half feet wide across a forty-acre tract.
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Writ oE Error to the Circuit Court of Monroe county; the Hon. B. R. Burroughs, Judge, presiding. This is an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Monroe county, brought by defendant in error against plaintiff in error, to recover possession of a strip of land thirteen and one-half feet wide across a forty-acre tract. The parties owned two forty-acre pieces of land lying adjacent to each other east and west, the east forty belonging to the defendant in error and the west forty to the plaintiff in error. The latter acquired title to his land on March 7, x 881, by deed of conveyance from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
It is claimed by plaintiff in error that he agreed with Michael Goedelmann upon the survey of 1881 as the boundary line between their respective lands; that Michael Goedelmann recognized the line as thus established; that the hedge was afterwards planted on the line; that he has been in possession of the land on the west side of the hedge for more than twenty years, and is therefore the owner thereof notwithstanding the fact that there may have been a mistake in the first survey.
The question of the establishment of a boundary line between the property of adjoining land owners, and the effect…
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