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11 Ill. 325

Gray v. McCane

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1849

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1849-12-15

This was a bill filed by complainant, McCance, in which he alleged, that in the year 1839 himself and family settled and made his residence on the north-west fractional quarter of section eleven, in township seven north, range eight west, containing one hundred and fifty acres; that he had a valid right of pre-emption to said land; that on the 23d day of September, 1841, he proved his right of pre-emption before the register and receiver at Quincy, Illinois, and that the…

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Decided 1849-12-15

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Opinion by Mr. Justice Trumbull:

¶1The defendant, in an answer, not under oath, alleged that the complainant had previously filed a bill against him in the same Court, in which he set up the same matters, and prayed the same relief as in this case ; that he fully answered said first bill, and that such proceedings were thereupon had that the injunction granted in said suit was dissolved, hut that the suit was still pending and undecided.

¶2The day after filing his answer, and before any replication thereto had been filed, the defendant entered a motion to dissolve the injunction granted in this case, and to dismiss the bill. This motion the Court sustained; and that decision is now assigned for error.

¶3The decision of the Court was clearly erroneous. Admitting that the facts set forth in the answer, if proved—orJ^»g^Nd,h in a plea, and admitted—would have constitutj fence, the defendant, if he thought proper to answer, should have been required to furnish! truth. This, so far as the record shows, he answer furnished no evidence of the truth of I

¶4The decree of the Circuit Court is reverse? remanded.

¶5Decree reversed.

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