Hardin v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “(1.) That plaintiff is seized in fee of the southeast fractional \ of section nineteen (19), the northeast fractional \ and the east fraction of the southeast fractional \ of section thirty (30), all in township thirty-seven (37) north, of range fifteen (15) east, in Cook County, State of Illinois, as per patent from the United States of America to John Holbrook, plaintiff’s ancestor, dated May 20, 1841, in which patent the grant of said lands is recited to be ‘ according to the official plat of the survey of the said lands returned to the General Land Office by the surveyor general; ’ that said patent was based upon an entry by said John Holbrook, made in the year 1838, at the United States land office in Chicago, Illinois. “ (2.) The government survey of lands in fractional township thirty-seven (37) aforesaid was made in the years 1834 and 1835, and the field-notes thereof as to the lands in question were as follows, to wit: [The field-notes are then given in extenso, expressly describing the meander line of the fractional sections as being “along the margin of the lahe”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hardin v. Jordan