Bowen v. Wickeksham

Bowen sued Wiekersham and others, in ejectment to recover the possession of.lot numbered 9 in the town of Mortonville, in Carroll county. The plaintiff’s only claim of title rests upon a decree of foreclosure and a sale and conveyance made in pursuance thereof by the sheriff of Carroll county.

The essential part of the description of the land in controversy, as contained in the decree, advertisement and deed, is as follows: “ Twenty acres out of the northwest fractional quarter of section twenty-nine, in township twenty-five north, of range two west, bounded as follows: Commencing at low water…