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8 Ill. App. 44

McCarty v. Reeve

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 6, 1881

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1881-04-06

William Brown, Judge, presiding. Bill filed by the appellee against the appellants to correct a mistake in a mortgage and for foreclosure. It is alleged that by the mistake of the scrivener one eighty-acre tract was described as being in section twenty-two, when it should have been section twenty-eight..

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Decided 1881-04-06

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Pillsbury, J.

¶1The title to the eighty-acre tract claimed to be omitted from the mortgage, was in William P. McCarty in fee. The records of the county did not disclose any lien upon it at the time of his purchase.

¶2The direct operation of the decree is to deprive him of his fee simple title, by subjecting it to the title of the mortgage. A freehold is thus involved in this cause, and the appeal should have been taken to the Supreme Court. We have no jurisdiction to determine the question whether the decree of the court below, was proper in depriving the said William P. of his fee in the land.

¶3The appeal must therefore be dismissed.

¶4Appeal dismissed.

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