Schley v. Pullman Palace Car Co.

These are actions in ejectment to recover lands upon-which the city of Pullman in part stands. Juries were -waived, and the cases were submitted to the court upon a stipulation that if the* following instrument should be held valid and binding as a deed of conveyance by husband and wife, judgment should be entered for the defendants:

“This indenture, made this twenty-sixth day of May, A. D. 1856, witnesseth, that I, Christina Lynn, sister and heir at law of Henry Millspaugh, deceased, who was a recruit of Lieutenant T. W. Denton, of the 13th regiment, United States infantry, war of 1812, with…