Case ID: ill-app_7/html/0191-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James Fitzgerald et al. v. Ellen Fitzgerald et al.
    Jurisdiction — Freehold.—This case involving the question of freehold, the court has no jurisdiction to hear the appeal.
    Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the lion. C. S. Zane, Judge, presiding.
    Opinion filed September 17, 1880.
    Messrs. Stuart, Edwards & Brown, and Mr. John C. Snigg, for appellants.
    Messrs. Robinson, Knapp & Shutt, for appellees.
   Per Curiam.

This was a bill in chancery brought by appellees against appellant, to cancel a deed for certain premises in the city of Springfield, and to restore them to their estate, which was an estate for life. The court below granted the relief prayed for; ordered tlie deed from appellees to appellant to he cancelled, and ordered appellants to re-convey to them a life estate. This proceeding, therefore, directly involves the title to a freehold, and under repeated rulings of this court, at this term, we cannot entertain jurisdiction of the case. See Board of Trustees v. Carrie Beale, of this term, [6 Bradwell, 536;] R. S. 1880, Ch. 110, § 89.

The appeal is therefore dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.