Cadwallader v. Harris

delivered the' opinion of the Court:

This was an action of ejectment, brought in the Adams circuit court, by appellee, Harris, against appellant, Cadwallader, to recover the lands in question. The plaintiff had judgment, to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted.

It is not contended that plaintiff's evidence failed to make out a prima faoie case; but the question is raised in this court that he was concluded by the judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois, rendered at the June term thereof, 1867, in favor of one Kibbie, against Sturtevant, the latter…