Wertin v. Crocker

Action of ejectment. Both parties claim title through one John Fitzgerald; the plaintiffs by purchase on the foreclosure of a mortgage given by him, and the defendant by sheriff’s deed on an execution sale. The case was tried by the circuit judge without a jury. The record shows no finding of facts by the judge, but there is a recital that the parties respectively proved certain things, supposed to be sufficient to establish their case or defense. No exceptions to rulings of the judge appear. The only finding of any sort which appears is that the “said circuit judge decided said cause in…