Cole v. Riper
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the La Salle County court; the Hon. P. Kim-ball Leland, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment brought by Henry Van Riper against Solomon Cole, in the La Salle County Court to recover possession of a tract of land situate in the town of Whitfield, in La Salle county. The plaintiff) to prove title, called George JVIunroe, who was sworn as a witness.
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Appeal from the La Salle County court; the Hon. P. Kim-ball Leland, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment brought by Henry Van Riper against Solomon Cole, in the La Salle County Court to recover possession of a tract of land situate in the town of Whitfield, in La Salle county. The plaintiff) to prove title, called George JVIunroe, who was sworn as a witness. Showed the witness a deed from John R. Snyder, and Elizabeth H. Snyder, his wife, to James Van Riper, of all of block number nine in the town of Whitfield, in La Salle county, Illinois, dated July 22, A. D. 1862, and filed…
1Opinion of the Court
Hr. Justice Lawbekce
delivered the opinion of the Court:
This was an action of ejectment, and one of the questions presented by the record is, whether under the law of 1861, known as the married woman’s act, a married woman can convey real estate, acquired since that time, without the joinder of her husband. That act provides “ that all the property, both real and personal, belonging to any married woman, as her sole and separate property, or which any woman hereafter married owns at the time of her marriage, or which any married woman, during coverture, acquires in good faith from any person…
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