Wiggin v. King

This is an action in the nature of ejectment, brought by Esther King against Horace Wiggin and Albert E. Wiggin, for the recovery of an eighty-acre tract of land situated in Franklin county, Kansas. The trial having resulted in favor of the plaintiff, the defendants bring the case here for review. Esther King was an Ottawa Indian, and the land in controversy, being a part of the Ottawa reservation, was allotted to her under the provisions of the treaty concluded- on the 24th day óf June, 1862, and upon this allotment her right of recovery was based. The plaintiffs in error claim the land…