Fisk v. Kissane

Citations

• 42 Ill. 87

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—certified copy of a deed—of the proper foundation for the seme. A plaintiff in ejectment, for the purpose of laying the foundation for the introduction of a certified copy of a deed from the record, to one of the former owners of the land, stated on oath that he had not then, and never had, the original of the deed referred to, and recorded in a1 certain specified hook in the recorder’s office, and that he did not know where the same then was. This was held sufficient, under the act of 1861, as a foundation for reading in evidence the copy from the record.</p>