Revoir v. State ex rel. Branyan

The question here is as to the right to subject to taxation certain lands in Huntington county. The lands are part'of a tract allotted by the United States government to Francis Godfrey, a Miami Indian, and patented to his son, Poqua Godfrey.

The evidence discloses that through a decree enforcing specific performance, said lands were conveyed to Anthony Revoir, the ancestor of the appellants Revoir, and that the same had been owned theretofore by one Bárthall, a white man. Said Anthony Revoir’s contract, so enforced, having been executed in an exchange by him of a certain tract of land on St.…