Ætna Life Ins. v. Hoppin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of Illinois; J. Otis Humphrey, Judge. Ejectment by the iEtna Life Insurance Company against Franklin M. Hoppin and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error was plaintiff in this action of ejectment. The cause was submitted to the court; without a jury, on an agreed statement of facts. Judgment was for defendants.
In 1862 Fassett, owner in fee of land in Illinois, deeded it to “Franklin Hoppin and Sarah Hoppin, his wife, during their natural lives and the life of the survivor of them, and at the death of the survivor to the heirs of the body of said Sarah, their heirs and assigns.”
Franklin died in 1865; Sarah, in 1908. In 1862, when the Fassett deed was made, defendants Hoppin and Garland, son and daughter…
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