Hawley v. Hawley
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kendall county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding. This is a bill in chancery by Frank O. Hawley, one of the heirs of Paul G. Hawley, deceased, against Christine J. Hawley, the widow, and Charles J. Hawley and others, the other heirs, seeking to establish title in complainant to a farm of two hundred and sixteen acres, known as the “Morgan farm,” and also a tract of about eight acres, known as the “Judson homestead,” in Kendall…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kendall county; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding. This is a bill in chancery by Frank O. Hawley, one of the heirs of Paul G. Hawley, deceased, against Christine J. Hawley, the widow, and Charles J. Hawley and others, the other heirs, seeking to establish title in complainant to a farm of two hundred and sixteen acres, known as the “Morgan farm,” and also a tract of about eight acres, known as the “Judson homestead,” in Kendall county, under and by virtue of two alleged lost and unrecorded deeds. The bill, as amended, sets forth that on March 13,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The chief question in the cause is whether or not Paul G. Hawley, on March 13, 1891, executed and delivered to appellee, Frank 0. Hawley, the two deeds, as alleged in his bill. The evidence contained in the record is unusually and unnecessarily voluminous, and cannot be reviewed within the reasonable scope of an opinion, and if it could, no good purpose would be served by doing so. The facts, so far as they bear upon the issues in the cause, are few, and the law applicable thereto is not difficult of ascertainment.
Whether or not it was proven on the hearing that the two deeds re-conveying the…
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