Kinsella v. Stephenson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Charles B. Campbell, Judge, presiding. On September 2, 1910, appellant, J. Edward Kinsella, filed a bill in chancery in the circuit court of Kankakee county against appellees, Abe Olds and L. P. Swannell, and others, for the purpose of quieting title in him to certain tracts of land situated in sections 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23, in township 31, in that county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Charles B. Campbell, Judge, presiding. On September 2, 1910, appellant, J. Edward Kinsella, filed a bill in chancery in the circuit court of Kankakee county against appellees, Abe Olds and L. P. Swannell, and others, for the purpose of quieting title in him to certain tracts of land situated in sections 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23, in township 31, in that county. The title to the lands described in the bill of complaint, other than in section 23, was quieted in appellant by the decree of the court and the determination of the title to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
Appellant urges that the court erred in dismissing-his bill of complaint for want of equity as to the tracts claimed by appellees, Olds and Swannell, respectively, and in not also dismissing the cross-bill of Olds. It was proper, under the circumstances, to grant relief on the cross-bill of Olds. Wachter v. Blowney, 104 Ill. 610; Houston v. Maddux, 179 id. 377.
The only paper title claimed by Kinsella to any part of the land in controversy is his contract and deed from Sheridan, and a deed from Whitehouse to Sheridan, executed in 1882, conveying the north-west fractional quarter of section 23.…
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