Stebbins v. Duncan
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OE ILLINOIS. This was an action for the possession of real estate in Illinois, involving title. The plaintiffs claimed under a sale on execution in a judgment recovered by the United States against one Duncan.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OE ILLINOIS. This was an action for the possession of real estate in Illinois, involving title. The plaintiffs claimed under a sale on execution in a judgment recovered by the United States against one Duncan. Duncan’s title ivas derived from a deed from one Dunbar to one Prout, dated January 6th, 1818, and recorded October 29th, 1838. The defendants claimed under a deed from Dunbar to one Frank, also dated January 6th, 1818, and entered for record June 18th, 1870. The suit was begun in the name of one Morris, who…
1Opinion of the Court
Me.'Justice Woods
delivered the opinion, of the court.
This was an action of ejectment, originally brought by "William B. Morris, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, against Howard Stebbins, the plaintiff in error, for the recovery of a quarter section of land, originally situated in Madison County, Illinois, but when the suit was begun, situate in Stark County. , Before the final trial of the cause, to wit, bn January 22d, 1879, the death of the plaintiff was suggested, and the devisees named’in the last will were made parties, as appears by the…
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