Aldrich v. Aldrich
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of La Salle county; the Hon. M. C. Hollister, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in Chancery, filed by the defendant in error at the June term, 1858, against the plaintiff in error to compel a conveyance of the legal title of a tract of land. There was a decree for the complainant, and the defendant sued out a writ of error. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
On the 25th of August, 1849, one William S. Joscelyn, as the assignee of Martin Wiggins, located a military bounty land warrant at the Dixon Land Office, on a quarter of land situate in La Salle county. On the 15th of May, 1851, the Commissioner of Pensions cancelled said warrant as fraudulent, and on the 5th of November, 1851, the Commissioner of the General Land Office cancelled the entry, and the certificate was returned to the land office at Dixon. Ón the 28th of May, 1853, the order cancelling the warrant was itself rescinded by the Commissioner of Pensions, and the warrant restored as…
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