Marple v. Scott

Appellants Kelson and Delia Maria, his wife, commenced an action of ejectment in the Bureau Circuit Court against the appellees, to recover the possession of lots four and five in block one, in the town of Sheffield in Bureau county, claiming the premises as the fee simple estate of Delia Maria Kelson.

Pending this action, Ellen Y. Scott, the widow, and Franklin L. and Edith L. Scott, infant children of George M. Scott, deceased, filed their bill to restrain the plaintiffs from prosecuting the suit, and for a perpetual injunction, alleging that George M. Scott, in the year 1854, purchased…