Doe ex dem. Martin v. Brown

This was an action of ejectment brought in the Clinton Circuit Court, in the name of John Doe, on the demise of Robert Martin, against Elizabeth Brown and several other defendants, some of whom were minors.

The principal error complained of is the suppression of the deposition of James Sigerson which had been taken on behalf of the plaintiff. A bill of exceptions shows us that the Court sustained a motion of the defendants’ counsel to suppress, this deposition on two grounds: 1st, That there had been no sufficient service of notice on the infant defendants in the cause; and, 2d, That the…