Harmon v. Larned
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. A. J. Gallagher, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Augustus E. Harmon against Charles G. Larned and John L. Sample, to recover possession of certain lands of which the defendants were in possession.
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Writ oe Error to the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. A. J. Gallagher, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Augustus E. Harmon against Charles G. Larned and John L. Sample, to recover possession of certain lands of which the defendants were in possession. Both parties endeavor to sustain and maintain title derived from the same source, to-wit: by sales under judgments against one Thomas A. McLaurie, and by transfers from the purchasers at such sales to the parties to this record respectively, with the addition in the case of the plaintiff of a deed from…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The deed executed by Wright, as successor of Clark, sheriff of Champaign county, to Jones, assignee of Baddely, is variant from the judgment and execution thereon,, and it was not aided by any parol evidence.
The year in which the judgment was rendered against McLaurie and Bragg, is 1860, while, in what purports to be the transcript of the judgment, it was rendered in 1858, and no proof was offered to show there- was but one judgment, and the judgment recited in the sheriff’s deed is for an amount different from the one in the judgment set out. There must be uniformity in the…
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