Taylor v. Pierce
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. C. B. Starr, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Appellate Court for the Second District, affirming a decree entered in the cause in the circuit court of Iroquois county. The proceeding was in chancery.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Iroquois county; the Hon. C. B. Starr, Judge, presiding. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Appellate Court for the Second District, affirming a decree entered in the cause in the circuit court of Iroquois county. The proceeding was in chancery. The bill alleged the appellant was the owner of the north sixty acres of the north half of the north-west quarter of section 18, township 27, north, range 11, west of the third principal meridian, and that the appellees, who…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
We are urged in the brief of counsel for appellant to reverse the judgment of the Appellate Court upon three grounds only, viz.: First, it did not appear from the record that a highway legally existed covering the said strip of ground; second, that if any highway had been legally established there it had been lost by non-user and the adverse possession of the appellant; and third, that the circuit court erroneously entered the decree dissolving the injunction and dismissing the bill upon a motion to dissolve the injunction, and without hearing the evidence of either party.
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