Colcord v. Alexander
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Bond county; the Hon Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. This was a hill in chancery, by Jediah F. Alexander against Samuel Colcord, to enjoin the defendant from committing trespasses, or cutting timber, etc., upon the land described in the bill, and to quiet title.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Bond county; the Hon Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. This was a hill in chancery, by Jediah F. Alexander against Samuel Colcord, to enjoin the defendant from committing trespasses, or cutting timber, etc., upon the land described in the bill, and to quiet title. The defendant answered, and filed his cross-bill setting up title derived through a marshal’s sale and deed under a judgment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois, and execution issued thereunder against Lansing & Ostrom, and praying for an injunction to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
Both parties claim title to the land in controversy through Lansing & Ostrom: the appellee as their grantee, and the appellant as grantee of the purchasers at the marshal’s sale under an execution issued on a judgment in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois, in favor of Gaylord, Son & Co., and against Lansing & Ostrom.
The original bill in this cause was for an injunction and to quiet title. No question as to the jurisdiction of the court has been made, and the point in the case on which the decision turns is, whether the description of the land in the…
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