St. John v. Conger
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. John S. Thompson, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought in the court below, by Crayton H. Conger against Alva K. St. John, to recover the north-east quarter of section twenty-seven, in township ■ thirteen, north of range two, east, in Knox county. A trial resulted in a finding and judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant thereupon took this appeal.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. John S. Thompson, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought in the court below, by Crayton H. Conger against Alva K. St. John, to recover the north-east quarter of section twenty-seven, in township ■ thirteen, north of range two, east, in Knox county. A trial resulted in a finding and judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant thereupon took this appeal. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
This was an action of ejectment, in which the plaintiff claimed through a deed from Robert McKernony to Peter H. Schenck, executed August 31, 1826, and improperly recorded in Hadison county in 1846, the land lying in Knox county. Subsequently a copy of the record of the deed in Hadison county was recorded in Knox. There was also a mortgage from Mc-Kemony to Schenck, properly recorded in 1820, and a deed from Schenck to Wkittemore in 1835, and a chain of conveyances from Whittemore to the plaintiff! The original deed from HcKemony to Schenck had never been reduced to record in Knox county. The…
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