Legal Opinion
G. F. Stearns Land & Lumber Co. v. Asher
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 18, 1924No. Nos. 3842, 3843PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
The Stearns Company claimed title to a tract of land in Leslie county, Ky., through a series of patents issued to De Groot, upon contiguous parcels, in 1870. In 1901 it brought an ejectment suit in the court below to recover a large boundary of land within these De Groot patents, and made defendants thereto numerous members and kin of the Hall and Brown families, as well as some others. The summons was returned, apparently duly served upon all the defendants whose interests are now material. In May, 1902, judgment by default was entered against various defendants; the…
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