Gage v. Eddy
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding. October 29, 1891, one William H. Eddy filed a petition in the superior court of Cook county, under the provir sions of the Burnt Records act, for a decree confirming and establishing title in him to a certain tract of land .described as the south twenty acres of the north half of the east half of the north-west quarter of section 28, town 38, north, range 14, in Cook county, excepting…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding. October 29, 1891, one William H. Eddy filed a petition in the superior court of Cook county, under the provir sions of the Burnt Records act, for a decree confirming and establishing title in him to a certain tract of land .described as the south twenty acres of the north half of the east half of the north-west quarter of section 28, town 38, north, range 14, in Cook county, excepting railroad right of way, etc. January 16, 1892, the appellant, Gage, one of the defendants to the said petition, filed an…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Boggs
Did the chancellor err in decreeing the cross-petition of appellant should be dismissed? The adjudication in the action of ejectment did not, it is suggested, extend to all the lands embraced in the cross-petition. The discrepancy, if any, in, this respect grew out of the fact the petition and the judgments in ejectment describe the property as the south twenty acres of a government subdivision, while the cross-petition described the south half of the same subdivision, and it is contended the subdivision of the section-contained more than forty acres. The decree dismissed the cross-petition…
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