Schrader v. Kehr
Illinois Supreme Court
Appear from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. B. R. Burroughs, Judge, presiding. Henry E. Schrader filed his petition in the circuit court of St. Clair county under the act of igoi, entitled “An act to provide for the permanent survey of lands.”
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Appear from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county; the Hon. B. R. Burroughs, Judge, presiding. Henry E. Schrader filed his petition in the circuit court of St. Clair county under the act of igoi, entitled “An act to provide for the permanent survey of lands.” All the lands involved are a part of the common fields of Prairie du Pont, the title to which was originally granted to certain missionaries of the Roman Catholic church by the king of France, and extended from the Mississippi river, southeastwardly, to the bluff. This ground was subdivided by the missionaries and conveyed in fee simple…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
This proceeding was begun under section 2 of the act of 1901. A notice was served upon the defendants to the petition, who were owners of lands and who did not join therein, of the day the petition would be presented to the court and application made for the appointment of a commission of surveyors to re-establish the corners and boundaries of the lands of the parties to the petition. The proceeding seems to have been begun and prosecuted upon the theory that the court could in said proceeding determine the portions of land formed by accretion and reliction of the river, belonging to the…
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