Porter v. White

By the Court,

Paine, J.

This action was commenced *560before a justice. The complaint was for a trespass upon the south half of the N. W. 1-4 of sec. 3, T. 17, R. 14 East. pjjg defendants denied all. the allegations of the complaint, and further plead title to the premises mentioned in the complaint. They gave the necessary bond, and the cause was sent to the circuit court. On the trial there, after the plaintiffs had given evidence tending to show that the complaint was true, the defendants offered in evidence a patent, signed by the governor and secretary of state, purporting to convey to one of…