Bell v. Longworth

Longworth and Miles commenced an action of forcible entry and detainer against Bell and Niger, before two justices of the peace, charging them with forcibly and unlawfully taking and detaining the possession of the south-west quarter of. section twenty, in township six south, of range ten west, in the Vincennes land district. An appeal transferred the cause to the Circuit Court, where there was a jury trial upon the general issue, verdict for the plaintiffs, and, after the usual motions to prevent, a judgment for restitution, &c., on the verdict.

It appears that the land in question was…