City of East St. Louis v. Hackett
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. William H. Skyder, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, by Bridget Hackett against the city of East St. Louis. The general issue was filed, and a trial had, resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Soott
The premises sought to be recovered in this action are described in the declaration as “ a strip taken off of the southeasterly end of lots one and two, of H. Valle’s subdivision of part of United States survey 126, twenty-five feet wide, and a strip twenty-five feet wide, lying in front of said lots, on the south-east of the same.”
On the trial, the jury found “ defendant guilty of unlawfully withholding, and that the plaintiff is seized in fee simple of the premises in the declaration described,” upon which verdict the court rendered judgment that plaintiff recover the premises. That finding…
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