Kane v. Footh

This was an action of ejectment, in the Kane Circuit Court, wherein Thomas Kane was plaintiff and Simon Footh defendant, to recover the possession of the east half of the northwest quarter of section nine, in township forty north, in range six east, of the third principal meridian. The cause was tried by a jury, and verdict for the defendant, on which the court, after overruling a motion for a new trial, rendered judgment against the plaintiff for the costs. To reverse this judgment the plaintiff appeals.

On the trial, the plaintiff deraigned his title from a patent from the United States to…