Seeley v. Baldwin

Benjamin Baldwin executed a deed dated February 24, 1858, to the defendant in error Jesse H. Baldwin, for 283f acres of land in Greene county, Illinois, conveying the same “unto the said Jesse H. Baldwin and his children, the legal heirs of his body, forever.” The said grantee, Jesse H. Baldwin, filed his bill in chancery in the circuit court of said county asking to have the deed construed, and in case the court should so construe the deed that he had any other title than an estate in fee in the lands described therein, alleging that the deed was so made by mistake, and praying that it might…