Silverman v. Kristufek
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. G. Ewing, Judge, presiding. This is an action of ejectment, begun in the Superior Court of Cook county, on August 18, 1886, and resulting finally in verdict and judgment in favor of appellee, by which judgment appellee recovers of appellant a strip of land 65 feet in length and 15-¡- inches in width, being a part of lot 38 in block 60 in the school section addition to Chicago.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. W. G. Ewing, Judge, presiding. This is an action of ejectment, begun in the Superior Court of Cook county, on August 18, 1886, and resulting finally in verdict and judgment in favor of appellee, by which judgment appellee recovers of appellant a strip of land 65 feet in length and 15-¡- inches in width, being a part of lot 38 in block 60 in the school section addition to Chicago. It was shown that appellant was in possession of the strip in question. The' appellee established his title by a regular chain of conveyances beginning with a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
The position taken by the appellant in this case is, that block 60, of which the property here in controversy is a part, was conveyed by Walter L. Newberry to Elijah K. Hubbard in trust for Nevins, Townsend & Co., and C. T. Moulton, H. L. DeKovan and Elijah Hubbard; that the deed did not state the objects of the trust; that the trust was merely jiassive; that the use was executed by the Statute of Uses; that the legal title passed through Elijah K. Hubbard, and vested immediately in the parties for whose use it was conveyed; and that, as plaintiff deraigned his title from Elijah K. Hubbard,…
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