Rice v. Cleghorn

This suit was instituted by Rice, Sherman and Crews against the appellees, to quiet the title to lands in Laporte county, and described as the “east half of the southeast quarter of section 17, and the north-west quarter of section 32, all in township 38, north of range 1 west,” and also to set aside an administrator’s sale, under which Cleghorn claims the lands. The facts alleged in the complaint are, in substance,as follows: The land in dispute belonged to Luther Rice, a Pottaioattomie Indian, who migrated from Laporte county in the year 1835, and went to the then Indian country west of the…