Hughes v. Lane
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of ejectment, brought by Margaret B. Lane, to recover the possession of lot six, in block three, in the city of Alton. The cause was submitted to the Court upon an agreed state of facts. The Court, Underwood, Judge, at the March term, 1849, found the defendants guilty, and that the plaintiff was entitled to an estate in fee simple to the lot in question. A motion for a new trial was made, and overruled.
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This was an action of ejectment, brought by Margaret B. Lane, to recover the possession of lot six, in block three, in the city of Alton. The cause was submitted to the Court upon an agreed state of facts. The Court, Underwood, Judge, at the March term, 1849, found the defendants guilty, and that the plaintiff was entitled to an estate in fee simple to the lot in question. A motion for a new trial was made, and overruled. The agreed case is substantially as follows: That one Ninian Edwards, the father of the plaintiff, was the owner in fee simple of the premises in the declaration mentioned,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Mr. Justice Trumbull:
James S. Lane and his wife, Margaret B. Lane, who is the defendant in error, in 1836, executed and delivered to Caleb Stone, a deed of conveyance for two lots of land, situated in the city of Alton. The fee in one of the lots belonged, at the time, to Mrs. Lane, and in the other, she had only a right of dower.
The only question in the case—the facts having been agreed upon by the parties—is, whether the acknowledgment of the deed by Mrs. Lane, was sufficient to convey away her title and interest in the lot, of which she was the owner in fee, and for the-recovery…
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