Chandler v. Morey
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. Frank D. Ramsay, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Mercer county; the Hon. Frank D. Ramsay, Judge, presiding. This is a bill of interpleader, filed on May 12, 1900, in the circuit court of Mercer county by the highway commissioners of Mercer township in that county, alleging that a road had been laid out along the north side of the land of one William K. Fulton, described as the west half of section 8 in township 14 north, range 4 west, in said county; that the damages had been assessed by a jury at §1042.50; that on December…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Macruder
The main question to be determined in this case is, whether the amount of damages, assessed for the opening of the highway across the north end of the half section of land in question, to-wit, the sum of $1042.50, belongs to appellee, as conservator of William K. Fulton, insane, or to the appellant, as purchaser of the property at the conservator’s sale.
When the sale was made on December 31, 1898, the judgment, assessing the damages for the opening of the road over Fulton’s land at $1042.50, had been rendered, the date of its entry upon the verdict of the jury being December 22, 1898. But the…
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