Fisher v. Bennehoff
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Stephenson county; the Hon. John Y. Eustace, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought on the 3d day of December, 1884, in the circuit court of Stephenson county, by Hugh Bennehoff, against Solomon Fisher and William Fisher, to recover a strip of land described in the declaration as commencing at the point where the east and west fence, lately built by the defendant Solomon Fisher, intersects the east side of the public…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Stephenson county; the Hon. John Y. Eustace, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought on the 3d day of December, 1884, in the circuit court of Stephenson county, by Hugh Bennehoff, against Solomon Fisher and William Fisher, to recover a strip of land described in the declaration as commencing at the point where the east and west fence, lately built by the defendant Solomon Fisher, intersects the east side of the public highway running north and south by the plaintiff’s dwelling house, and 13 rods 9 feet south-easterly from the south-east…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shore
This action grows out of a dispute as to the half quarter-section line east and west through a portion of the north-west quarter of section 25, in township 29 north, range 8, east of the fourth principal meridian, in Stephenson county. It is ■contended by appellants that it bounds the strip of land in •controversy on the north, and by appellee, that it bounds the strip on the south. Appellants claim that from a survey made in 1881, the north line of section 25 was found to be Safest further north than it was supposed to be in 1846, and that the call of 80^ perches in the deed to Mrs. Shaffer,…
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