Northern Pac. R. Co. v. Ellis

144 U.S. 458

12 S.Ct. 724

36 L.Ed. 504

NORTHERN PAC. R. CO.

v.

ELLIS.

April 11, 1892.

STATEMENT BY MR. CHIER JUSTICE FULLER.

Ellis brought his action in the circuit court for Douglas county, Wis., against the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, E. L. Johnson, W. H. Sage, and Henry W. Bradford, July 1, 1889, to quiet title to seven lots in the city of Superior, deraigned through one Roberts, to whom the county of Douglas, which held under certain taxdeeds, had conveyed, and then averred that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company asserted title to the lots under a certain deed, a copy of which was…