Taylor v. Reed
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mason county; the Hon. Guy R. Williams, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson
delivered the opinion of the court.
Melissa J. Taylor filed a bill in equity against Isaac J. Reed, J. H. Rankin and Jacob Clausen, alleging that she is the owner of the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 7 and of a life estate in the southwest quarter of the- southwest quarter of Section 8 in Allen’s Grove; that there is a public highway of the width of forty feet on the section line between said lands; that the slope of said land is such that the water in a state of nature ran northerly down the road and across the northwest quarter of the southwest…
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