Platz v. Englehardt

The plaintiff brought ejectment to recover the possession of certain premises, which he claims to own in fee simple through one or more quitclaim deeds from the grantees of the owner of the original title under a United States patent. The defendants who were in possession at the time that the action was begun occupied under a certificate issued by the commissioner of the State land office to him as a homesteader, under the provisions of the State tax homestead law. They filed a plea of the general issue, and gave notice of a claim for improvements, whereupon counsel for the plaintiff made a…