Sweezy v. Chandler
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action in ejectment, submitted to the Judge of the Henderson Circuit Court, upon the following agreed state of facts : The action was brought to recover lot fourteen and the east hálf of lot fifteen, in block sixty-eight, in the town of Oquawka, in said county.
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This was an action in ejectment, submitted to the Judge of the Henderson Circuit Court, upon the following agreed state of facts : The action was brought to recover lot fourteen and the east hálf of lot fifteen, in block sixty-eight, in the town of Oquawka, in said county. It was agreed that the plaintiff showed on the trial the following title, to wit, a judgment in the Circuit Court of Warren county, rendered on the 13th November, A. D. 1843, in favor of J. B. Camden et al., against John Harris, for the sum of $2,103; a sale on the 15th day of August, 1844, of said lots, to the plaintiffs…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Mr. Justice Catón :
The decision of this case involves a construction of our statute authorizing judgment creditors to redeem. The premises in controversy are situated in Henderson county, and originally belonged to J. Harris, against whom three judgments were obtained. The first was recovered by Hughs, in the Henderson Circuit Court, on the 27th of May, 1842. The second was in the Warren Circuit Court in favor of the Chandlers, and recovered on the 13th of November, 1843; and the third was in favor of Thayer, and recovered in the Henderson Circuit Court on the 3d of June, 1844. An…
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