Davis v. Hopkins
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a bill filed in the Kendall circuit court, by the appellee against the appellants, for a conveyance of the lands therein mentioned. The nature and object of the bill sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. This cause was heard and decree entered at the March term, 1854, of the Kendall Circuit Court, Leland, Judge. The decree appears in the opinion, and from which decree the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtScates, J.
At the public land sale of the government at Chicago, on the 13th of February, 1843, Davis bid off the east half N. E. 31, and east half ti. B. 30, T. 37, north tange, 8 east, 3d principal meridian, lying in Kendall county, the first at §1.28, and the last at $1.25 per acre, and took a certificate of entry in the name of Geo. A. O. Beaumont. On the 20th of November, 1843, Beaumont conveyed these tracts to Davis, and on the 23d of November, Davis entered at the land-office the west half of 31. Beaumont’s deed to Davis was not recorded. So the matter stood until the 4th of May, 1848, when Davis…
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