Dean v. Long
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Isaac G. Wilson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, exhibited in the De Kalb circuit court on the 18th day of February, A. D. 1876, by Robert Furniss Long, Elizabeth Long, Harry C. Long, Alicia Lucia Burton, John Burton, Eleanor M. Taylor, Charles A. Taylor, Alice E. Long and Albert D. Long, against Erastus Dean and George M. Hadden, and alleging, in substance, that Robert Whatkinson Long caused to be purchased…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Isaac G. Wilson, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in equity, exhibited in the De Kalb circuit court on the 18th day of February, A. D. 1876, by Robert Furniss Long, Elizabeth Long, Harry C. Long, Alicia Lucia Burton, John Burton, Eleanor M. Taylor, Charles A. Taylor, Alice E. Long and Albert D. Long, against Erastus Dean and George M. Hadden, and alleging, in substance, that Robert Whatkinson Long caused to be purchased of the United States the south half of the south-east quarter, and south half of the south-west quarter, of section 36,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
We have arrived at the same conclusion reached by the chancellor below, but by a somewhat different process of reasoning.
We are inclined to think the depositions of Robert Furniss Long and Elizabeth Long, two of the complainants, taken after the death of Hadden, were incompetent to be read in evidence as against his heirs-at-law, and they prove nothing that we deem of any moment against Dean, his grantee. But omitting those depositions, the patent establishes, beyond all question, that the only title that Robert Furniss Long had in the land was as joint trustee with Robert Whatkinson Long,…
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