Mitchell v. Smale
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO" THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Ejectment. Judgment for the defendant. Plaintiff sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in'the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
*407The decision of this case depends upon the same general principles which have just been discussed in the case of Hardin v. Jordan, the two cases being in all essential respects much alike, both of them relating to land on the margin and under the waters of Wolf Lake. But before adverting to the supposed distinction between them, it is necessary to examine a question of jurisdiction.
■ The action was ejectment, and was commenced in the Circuit Court of Cook County, by Mitchell, the plaintiff in error, against three defendants, Jabez G. Smale and John I. and •Frank I. Bennett, and summons was…
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