Brooks v. Bruyn
Illinois Supreme Court
This is an action of forcible entry and detainer, instituted upon the following complaint before a justice of the peace: “ STATE OF ILLINOIS, Warren County, ss. • “ Zachariah Bruyn, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is now lawfully entitled to the possession of north-west quarter of section nine (9), in township nine (9) north, in range two (2) west, in Warren county, in the State of Illinois, and that he was and has been lawfully entitled to the possession of said…
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This is an action of forcible entry and detainer, instituted upon the following complaint before a justice of the peace: “ STATE OF ILLINOIS, Warren County, ss. • “ Zachariah Bruyn, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is now lawfully entitled to the possession of north-west quarter of section nine (9), in township nine (9) north, in range two (2) west, in Warren county, in the State of Illinois, and that he was and has been lawfully entitled to the possession of said land ever since the 26th day of June, A. D. 1856. That on or about the second of July, A. D. 1856, he, said Bruyn, was…
1Opinion of the CourtBbeese, J.
When this case was before this court at a former term, Brooks v. Bruyn, 18 Ill. R. 542, we then said that actual possession of land may- arise in different ways, as by entering upon and improving the same, with the intention of appropriating the land to an ordinary or useful purpose, which acts, in their nature, in connection with the claim of right, indicate an exclusive use and control of the property ; by erecting buildings ; by breaking prairie for cultivation; by inclosure; by opening shafts for raising coal or ore, quarries for obtaining rock, ,and using them to the exclusion of others;…
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