Robinson v. Robinson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Forcible detainer. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1893, and affirmed. Statement of the Case.
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Memorandum.—Forcible detainer. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1893, and affirmed. Statement of the Case. Martha J. Robinson, in her own right and as guardian of Curtis E. Robinson, Jr., -and Bessie L, Robinson, minors, filed a complaint in forcible detainer against “M. L. Wilson.”- Summons having been served, appellant filed, by the name of May Robinson sued as M. L. Wilson, a verified plea, setting forth that- before the bringing of this suit, she had brought her bill in the Superior Court…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice "Waterman
delivered the opinion of the Court.
It is urged that under the evidence as to the existence of an heir of C. E. Robinson, not one of the plaintiffs, this judgment for the possession of the entire premises can not be sustained. The testimony that the three plaintiffs are the three children of C. E. Robinson, is clear. The evidence that there is or ever was another child, is vague and most unsatisfactory.
The witness, Martha Robinson, testified that she had for ten years prior to her father’s death lived here; that she had never heard her father speak of this supposed child,…
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