The Texas Company v. Hawthorne

This appeal involves the title to a parcel of land 52.42 feet wide, north and south, by 264 feet long, east and west, located in the west half of the southeast quarter of section 5, township 1 north, range 2 east of the third principal meridian in Marion county, Illinois. The issue involved will more easily be understood by reference to the following plat:

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The precise point at issue is the location of the south end of the line D-E, but in order to arrive at a consideration of that issue it is necessary to give a short history of the title. The southeast quarter of section 5 was…