Patterson v. Hamilton

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The defendant in error in her action of ejectment in the court below recovered judgment for the possession of a small tract of tideland adjoining the town of Ketchikan. She alleged in her complaint that on July 1, 1919, and for more than nine years prior thereto she had been lawfully possessed “and is now entitled to the possession of the tract described in the complaint,” and that on or about July 26, 1919, the defendants unlawfully entered into the possession of said premises and ousted her therefrom. The defendants in their answer denied the allegations of the…