Sweeptzer v. Gaines

In this case, the plaintiffs below sustained their action of ejectment by the same proof made in their several cases against Rector, Hunter, Hale and Butler.

On the part of the defendant there was no application for a continuance as in some of these cases, and no offer to introduce evidence of Langlois’ claim, or that of Perciful. But he took the independent position of being a settler upon the public lands, and offered, among other things, to prove facts tending to show that Belding’s heirs were not entitled to the certificate of purchase they proceeded upon; because their ancestor was not…