Snyder v. Hemmingway

Snyder brought ejectment for 120 acres of land, consisting of two adjacent government subdivisions of 80 and 40 acres respectively, and occupied severally by *552«defendants in parcels. On the trial he made out his title by showing conveyances to himself and predecessor of the .government title in 1839 and 1855. He then showed that ■defendants had taken deeds from one Jesse Hemmingway in 1872 and 1876, and a conveyance made in February, 1859, from one Finnegan to Jesse Hemmingway. He then proved a judgment in ejectment rendered in plaintiff’s favor ■against Jesse Hemmingway in November, 1865,…