Lourance v. Goodwin

This was an action of ejectment brought by Peter Lourance, against John Goodwin, Sr., and John Goodwin, Jr., to the May term, 1896, of the circuit court of Vermilion county, to recover a strip of land forty rods long and seven feet and three inches wide at the north end and tapering to a point at the south end. At the October term following, the suit was dismissed as to John Goodwin, Sr., and an amended declaration filed, describing the premises as “commencing at a stone at the south-west corner of the north-east quarter of section 7, township 21, range 12, west, Vermilion county, Illinois;…