Kellogg v. Forsyth

These are writs of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois! Both suits were brought in the Court below by the present defendant against the respective plaintiffs in error. They were actions of ejectment, and were respectively commenced on the 18th day of November, 1854, to recover possession of certain but different parts of claim numbered seven in the village of Peoria, as confirmed to Thomas Forsyth under the Act of Congress, approved the 3d day of March, 1823, entitled an Act to confirm certain claims to lots in the village of Peoria, in the…