Skinner v. Fulton
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hancock county. This was an action of ejectment commenced in the court, below by John B. H. Fulton against Onias C. Skinner, to recover the north-east quarter of section twenty-six, in township four, north of range seven west, situate in Hancock county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hancock county. This was an action of ejectment commenced in the court, below by John B. H. Fulton against Onias C. Skinner, to recover the north-east quarter of section twenty-six, in township four, north of range seven west, situate in Hancock county. The plaintiff gave in evidence the patent for the land from the United States to John Stephens, bearing date May 28,, 1818. He then offered in evidence a deed from John Stephens to Bobert Fulton, dated December 1, 1818. The defendant insisted that the grantee’s name in this deed was written “Fultoz,” and not “…
1Opinion of the Court
Mi*. Chief Justice Walker
delivered the opinion of the Court:
After a careful inspection of the original deed read in evidence in this case, we see that the name in the body of the deed is Fulton. It is true, the scrivener who drafted it, formed the" final letter in the name as most persons form the last letter of the alphabet; but an examination of the deed shows that in other words terminating in the letter “ n,” that letter is formed in the same way. Were it not for this fact, it might leave the mind in some doubt as to the name; but seeing that the same letter when final in other words was…
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