Chase v. Palmer
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of ejectment commenced and tried in the Peoria Circuit Court. There was a trial by the court and and jury at November term, 1861, which resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for the undivided fourth of the south-east quarter of Section thirty-three, Town ten north, ¡Range seven east. * There was a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and a judgment was rendered for plaintiff below. The defendant below is appellant here.
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
The only objection we deem necessary to consider is-the-validity of the deed from Hutchings to Saunders, lying, as it does, at the very threshold of the plaintiff’s case. The deed when offered in evidence, appeared to be printed on a half sheet of foolscap paper, somewhat soiled and torn, and the blanks filled, for the most part, by one and the same hand, and that hand, as is evident from inspection, was Cunningham’s, one of the subscribing witnesses, and the magistrate before whom the acknowledgment was made.
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