Woodward v. Blanchard
Illinois Supreme Court
This is an action of ejectment brought by Blanchard against Woodward, to recover the possession of a lot of land of which Blanchard claimed to be seized in fee, described as lot number two hundred and eighty, on the town plat of the town of Henry, in Marshall county, Illinois, included in section sixteen, township thirteen north, of range two east of the fourth principal meridian. The declaration is in the usual form. Plea, the general issue.
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This is an action of ejectment brought by Blanchard against Woodward, to recover the possession of a lot of land of which Blanchard claimed to be seized in fee, described as lot number two hundred and eighty, on the town plat of the town of Henry, in Marshall county, Illinois, included in section sixteen, township thirteen north, of range two east of the fourth principal meridian. The declaration is in the usual form. Plea, the general issue. The issue being joined at October tern, 1854, of the Marshall Circuit Court, Lbland, Judge, presiding, by agreement of the parties, this cause was…
1Opinion of the CourtScales, C. J.
The defendant here recovered a judgment in ejectment, as plaintiff below, upon such proof of title as we deem sufficient, and we do not examine any of the objections urged against it.
The only question we propose to examine, is the title of the plaintiff in error, as set up and insisted upon in the court below in his defense. We are of opinion that the court below, to which the facts were submitted, erred in finding the issue for the defendant, and also in the rendition of judgment upon that finding.
The defense set up, was the statute of seven years’ limitation, perfecting title under a deed…
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