Gitt v. Watson

This was an action in the nature of ejectment, brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant, for a tract of land situated in St. Louis county. The tract in dispute was a New *275Madrid location, in tbe name of Nathaniel Shaver or his legal representatives. The plaintiff claimed under conveyances from the heirs of Shaver. The defendant’s title was a decree in chancery instituted against the unknown heirs of Nathaniel Shaver; Shaver transferred the certificate in his life-time to George Bollinger, from whom Beverly Allen derived title. Allen instituted the suit in which the decree was…