Bissett v. Bowman

Citations

• 54 Ill. 254

Syllabus

<p>Description—identity of premises, how shown. In an action of ejectment, it was sought to deduce title through an administrator’s sale. The property sold by the administrator was not specifically described in any of the proceedings, except in the petition filed by him. The decree simply ordered the sale of the real estate “mentioned in the petition.” The report of the administrator stated that he had sold “ all the lots which deceased owned in Illinoistown at the time of his death, in pursuance to the previous order of the court.” This report did not appear to have been in any manner acted upon by the court. The deed of the administrator only described the property thereby conveyed as having belonged to the deceased at the time of his death: Held, the identity of the lot in controversy as having been sold by the administrator, could only be shown by the petition.</p>