Douglas v. Whiting
Illinois Supreme Court
The facts necessary to a full understanding of this case, will be found in the opinion of the Court. The Circuit Court of Knox, Lawrence, Judge, presiding, rendered a judgment for defendant, and the plaintiffs in that court bring the case to this.
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
This was an action of ejectment, brought in the Knox Circuit Court, at the October term, 1861, by the plaintiffs in error against the defendant in error, to recover their proportion of a certain tract of land in that county.
To make out their title, the plaintiffs introduced the record of a judgment regularly entered in the Knox Circuit Court, at the April term, 1857, in the name of Isaac Armstrong, plaintiff, and against the defendant in error, in an action of -debt.
An execution and fee bill issued on this judgment, a levy ¡by the sheriff on the land in question, and a sale of it by him to…
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