Robinson v. Ferguson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. This was a petition in chancery, under the Burnt Record Act, Rev. Stat. 841, sec. 16, filed by Robert W. Robinson, against John Ferguson, on the 14th day of July, 1873, in the Superior Court of Cook county, setting out the destruction of the public records of Cook county by fire, in the fire of October 8 and 9, 1871; that the complainant was the owner in fee simple of the west half of…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. This was a petition in chancery, under the Burnt Record Act, Rev. Stat. 841, sec. 16, filed by Robert W. Robinson, against John Ferguson, on the 14th day of July, 1873, in the Superior Court of Cook county, setting out the destruction of the public records of Cook county by fire, in the fire of October 8 and 9, 1871; that the complainant was the owner in fee simple of the west half of the north-west quarter of section 30, in township 40 north, range 14 east of the third principal meridian, situate in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
There is exhibited by the proof a good chain of title to the premises in controversy in John Ferguson, brought down from the government, unless the objections which are taken thereto be sufficient to invalidate it.
It is objected to the validity of the deed of Isaac 1ST. Arnold, special commissioner, that the decree under which it was made was void, because it was rendered at the March term, 1839, of the Cook county circuit court; that that term of the court was held without warrant of law.
The time of holding the spring term of the circuit court for Cook county was changed from the month of…
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