Clingman v. Hopkie
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Randolph county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Henry Hopkie against Mary Clingman, Frederick Runge, Dorothea Rabe, and Bathine Runge, and Charles Schwear, her next friend, to enjoin the prosecution of an action of ejectment, instituted by Frederick Runge and Bathine Runge, by Charles Schwear, her next friend, against the complainant, for an 80 acre tract of land, and to correct the title.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Randolph county; the Hon. Amos Watts, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by Henry Hopkie against Mary Clingman, Frederick Runge, Dorothea Rabe, and Bathine Runge, and Charles Schwear, her next friend, to enjoin the prosecution of an action of ejectment, instituted by Frederick Runge and Bathine Runge, by Charles Schwear, her next friend, against the complainant, for an 80 acre tract of land, and to correct the title. The opinion of the court contains a statement of the material and principal facts of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
It appears, that on the 1st of January, 1852, Frederick Runge was the owner of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 15, town. 5 north, range 8 west, and the east half of the northeast quarter of the same section. On the 20th day of that month, he and his wife mortgaged the same to John Walsh, to secure the payment of $650; that Walsh died, and his brother, James, was appointed administrator of his estate; that on the 5th of April, 1859, the administrator filed a bill to foreclose the mortgage, and at the April term of that year he obtained a decree of the circuit court…
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