Booth v. Tiernan

Syllabus

<p>Deed — Error—Evidence—Illinois—Limitations—Practice—Statutes.</p> <p>1. The cause was submitted to the court beiow without the intervention of a jury. No error in law can be predicated of a finding of fact by the court.</p> <p>S. It being proved that a deed had been lost, and not intentionally destroyed or disposed of for the purpose of introducing a copy, it is competent under the statute of Illinois to use in evidence a certified copy of the deed from thé proper recorders office in the place of the original, although it was admitted that there was an error in the copy.</p> <p>3. It is competent to prove the error in such case by evidence of witnesses who had read the original deed ; or by a copy of the registry of the original deed as entered in the file book.</p>