Legal Opinion
Urbaitis v. Commonwealth Edison
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided June 20, 1991No. 69216, 69237 consPublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bilandic
Plaintiffs commenced this action against the defendants in the circuit court of Kane County to quiet title to a parcel of real estate located in Geneva, Illinois. Both parties claim title through a 1909 deed from Benjamin W. Dodson to the Chicago, Wheaton & Western Railway.
A fee simple title is the highest form of estate in land that can be conveyed by a grantor. (E. Grigsby, Illinois Real Property §16 (1948).) A grant of an easement is a substantially lesser estate in land which merely permits a grantee to use a portion of the land for a limited purpose without conveying title to the…
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