Mercer v. Doe on the demise of Nutting

Ejectment for a tract of land in Wabash county. The Court tried the cause and gave judgment for the plaintiff. The record professes to set out all the evidence given on the trial.

Nutting, the plaintiff’s lessor, on the 14th of April, 1841, executed his promissory note to one Robert D. Helm, upon which Helm recovered a judgment before a justice of the peace. "With a view to obtain a lien upon Nutting's land, a transcript of that judgment was filed in the Wabash Circuit Court. By scire facias on this transcript, Helm, at the March term, 1846, obtained a judgment in said Court against Nutting.…