Clark v. Thompson

This was an action of ejectment, brought by Sarah Jane Clark, against Miles Thompson, in the Randolph Circuit Court. On the trial in the court below, the jury found a verdict in favor of defendant, upon which a judgment was rendered in his favor. To reverse that judgment, an appeal is prosecuted to this court, and various errors have been assigned on the record.

It is first insisted, that the circuit court rendering the order licensing the administrator to sell the land in controversy, to pay the debts of Cuthbert S. Crane, deceased, did not have jurisdiction of the persons of the heirs. It…