Kimmell v. Burns

This was a suit to enforce a vendor’s lién on a forty-acre tract of land which formerly belonged to the *371inhabitants of one of the congressional townships of Noble county.

The complaint charged that, on the 11th day of December,. 1855, one Hardenbrook purchased the land of the proper officer at a specified price, and received a certificate of his purchase in due form; that afterwards Cyrus Kimmell, the plaintiff, became the holder and owner of this certificate by assignment; that, after becoming such holder and owner— that is to say, on the 12th day of April, 1866 — the plaintiff sold,…