Laflin v. Herrington
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was tried by the Court, J. M. Wilson, Judge, presiding, at February term, 1854, of the Common Pleas for Cook County. The Court found the issues for the plaintiffs, and the defendant guilty of withholding the premises described in the declaration, and rendered judgment that plaintiffs recover the same. Motion for a new trial by defendant, and overruled. The defendant brings the case to this court by appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an action of ejectment brought, on the 13th day of February, 1854, by Herrington and eight others, against Laflin, to recover nine-tenths of the whole, and nine-elevenths of the remaining tenth of the following premises:
That part of the north-west fractional quarter of section 22, T. 39 N., R. 14 east of the third principal meridian, bounded north by that part of said quarter section, conveyed by James Herrington, and Charity, his wife, to John S. Wright, by deed, bearing date- December 3rd, 1834, recorded in book B, page 295, of the records of Cook county; west by the west line of…
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