Gritten v. Dickerson
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third.District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Douglas county; the Hon. W. G. Cochran, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Third.District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Douglas county; the Hon. W. G. Cochran, Judge, presiding. This is a bill, filed in the circuit court of Champaign county by the appellant, Lyda Gritten, against the appellee, Elizabeth Dickerson, praying for the cancellation of a deed, alleged to have beeii executed February 11, 1889, by Laban Gritten and his wife, the appellant Lyda Gritten, conveying to the appellee, Elizabeth Dickerson, six hundred and forty acres, being a section of land in that county, and for a decree that…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
On November 28, 1888, Ezra Dickerson and his wife, Elizabeth Dickerson, executed a deed, conveying the six hundred and forty acres of land here in controversy to Laban Gritten, the husband of the appellant. Laban Gritten held the title to the property for a little more than two months, and on February 11, 1889, the records show a deed, purporting to have been executed by Laban Gritten and the appellant, Lyda Gritten, his wife, conveying back the six hundred and forty acres, not to Ezra Dickerson, but to the appellee, Elizabeth Dickerson, Ezra Dickerson’s wife. The contention of the appellant…
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