Stalford v. Goldring
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. P. Vail, Judge, presiding. This is an action of ejectment brought by appellants, against appellee, in the circuit court of Cook county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. P. Vail, Judge, presiding. This is an action of ejectment brought by appellants, against appellee, in the circuit court of Cook county. It appears that in 1836 John C. Phillips and wife conveyed to Clark Hollenback the west sixty acres of the east half of the south-west quarter of section 4, township 37, north, range 14, east of the third principal meridian, in Cook county, and that appellee is the heir-at-law of Clark Hollenback. Upon the trial there was filed an affidavit of plaintiffs’ attorney setting forth that plaintiffs claimed…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ricks
At the close of appellee’s evidence appellants offered. an instruction and requested the court to direct a verdict in favor of appellants, which was refused. At the request of appellants the court, by appellants’ fourteenth instruction, told the jury that if plaintiffs (appellants) fenced or caused to be fenced the land mentioned in the declaration to be fenced, by building a fence around the same, then such act of fencing was actually taking possession of the land. At the request of appellee, and by instruction 8 in her behalf, the court told the jury that “the fact that the plaintiffs built…
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