Johnson v. Baker
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Henry County; the Hon. Ira O. Wilkinson, Judge, presiding. This was an action of forcible detainer, commenced before a justice of the peace in Henry County, by Olof Johnson and Samuel Remington, against Jonathan H. Baker. The cause was removed, by-appeal, into the Circuit Court, where a trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant. The plaintiffs thereupon sued out this writ of error.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Henry County; the Hon. Ira O. Wilkinson, Judge, presiding. This was an action of forcible detainer, commenced before a justice of the peace in Henry County, by Olof Johnson and Samuel Remington, against Jonathan H. Baker. The cause was removed, by-appeal, into the Circuit Court, where a trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the defendant. The plaintiffs thereupon sued out this writ of error. The facts of the case appear in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
In this ease plaintiffs in error claim the right to recover, under the .act of 1861, amending the forcible entry and detainer law. They recovered a judgment in the Henry Circuit Court for the sum of $214 45, against defendant in error. An execution was issued, and levied upon the premises in controversy, and they were redeemed from a previous sale by the sheriff, on an execution issued upon a transcript of a judgment from the docket of a justice of the peace, filed in the Circuit Clerk’s office, which was in favor of Ezekiel Husted, and against defendant in error. After the redemption, when…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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