Hubbard v. Stearns
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hou. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery by May Hubbard against Marcus C. Stearns, to settle a disputed boundary line.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hou. Samuel M. Moore, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery by May Hubbard against Marcus C. Stearns, to settle a disputed boundary line. The bill shows that Stearns had claimed a part of the lot owned by the complainant, being a small strip, and had built a fence inclosing the same, and as a consequence thereof her grantees threaten to sue her, and that Stearns’ pretended claim is a cloud upon the unsold portion of said lot, and prevents a sale by her. The prayer was that the original line be established and the cloud removed. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Craig
The only controverted question presented by the pleadings and evidence in this case is in regard to the location of the division line between lot 13 in block 24, canal trustees’’ subdivision of south fractional section 29, township 39 north, range 14 east, now owned by the appellee, Marcus C. Stearns, and lot 14 in the same block, owned by appellant, May Hubbard. Both lots were originally owned by the canal trustees, and before they were platted or sold they were divided by a line fence which had been erected long prior to 1848. In the year 1848 a plat of the property was made and recorded,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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