Blanchard v. Pratt
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Bureau county; the Hon. Madison E. Hollister, Judge, presiding. This was an action of forcible entry and detainer, brought by Thomas Pratt, before a justice of the peace of Bureau county, against William A. P. Blanchard and William McLaren. The forcible entry was charged to have been on the southwest quarter of section twenty-six, in town fifteen north, range six, east of the fourth principal meridian, in the county of Burean.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Bureau county; the Hon. Madison E. Hollister, Judge, presiding. This was an action of forcible entry and detainer, brought by Thomas Pratt, before a justice of the peace of Bureau county, against William A. P. Blanchard and William McLaren. The forcible entry was charged to have been on the southwest quarter of section twenty-six, in town fifteen north, range six, east of the fourth principal meridian, in the county of Burean. A verdict was found for* Pratt, and a judgment of restitution awarded, from which Blanchard and McLaren appealed to the Circuit Court.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
The points on this record arise out of the instructions given by the court, on behalf of the plaintiff, the appellee here, and which were excepted to at the time by appellants. They are twenty-one in number, the most of which we deem pertinent and relative to the ease on trial, and based on the evidence adduced. Some of them are objectionable, which we will notice.
The ninth instruction for the appellee is as follows:
“If the jury believe, from the evidence, that at the time of the breaking by Pratt, he had a lease or paper title to the entire quarter section in dispute, and he did such…
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