Reichert v. Jerome H. Sheip, Inc.

The suit is in statutory ejectment. This is the third appeal. Former decisions are found in Reichert v. Sheip, 204 Ala. 86, 85 So, 267, and Reichert v. Sheip, 206 Ala. 648, 91 So. 618.

Plaintiff deraigns title through a patent from the general land office to the “representatives of Louis Duret,” issued in 1911 upon a private land claim of such representatives confirmed by act of Congress in 1822.

The issue upon the last trial was whether the persons through whom plaintiff claims, or some of them, are representatives or heirs at law of Louis Duret. i.

The evidence of heirship was through…