Slade v. Eckler

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hardin:

This suit, though commenced in equity, was tried as an ordinary action for the recovery of about 9% acres of land which the plaintiff claimed, as embraced by a patent to James Brooks for 9,114% acres of land, dated 1905. And by a deed made by Theophilus Ohanning, as commisisoner for the heirs of Brooks, to William Logan’s devisees, dated December 17, 1831, and made under a decree of the Harrison circuit court in the suit of Pricilla Logan and others against Simon Kenton’s heirs and others; and by a devisees of William Logan, deceased, made by John Trimble,…