Collier v. Beers

Some time in the year 1839, John Judd entered at the land office, in his own name, certain lands in the county of DeKalb, and a patent was afterwards issued to him by the United States. In 1840 he married Mrs. Mary Collier, then the widow of Joseph Collier, Sen., who had died in 1837. At the time of his death Collier lived on a part of this land, and is said to have had what was at that day known as a claim title to all the land in question, good, under our then statute, against all persons other than those holding under the United States. After. Collier’s death his widow, with .several minor…