Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Clapp
Illinois Supreme Court
Ap'pjsal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. P. Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. This is an action of ejectment, brought by the appellee against the appellant company to recover the possession of a strip of land sixty-six feet wide off of the south side of the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section 11, town 19, north, range 13, west of the second principal meridian in Vermilion county, of which the declaration alleges that the appellee is the…
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Ap'pjsal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. P. Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. This is an action of ejectment, brought by the appellee against the appellant company to recover the possession of a strip of land sixty-six feet wide off of the south side of the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section 11, town 19, north, range 13, west of the second principal meridian in Vermilion county, of which the declaration alleges that the appellee is the owner in fee simple. To the declaration the plea of the general issue was filed. The case was tried before the court and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
Upon the trial of the case at bar,, the appellee claimed title to the property in question by warranty deed executed to him by William P. Makemson. The interest of the appellant in the strip of land in question is also derived from William P. Makemson through a condemnation proceeding, instituted by the Danville Coal Belt Railroad Company against William P. Makemson, the owner of.the forty acres, of which the strip in question, sixty-six feet wide, was a part. The road passed into the possession of the appellant company, and was operated by it through an arrangement, made by appellant company…
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