Earle v. Peterson

The appellant, John G. Earle, commenced this suit in 1872, in the Lake Circuit Court, alleging that *505he was the owner of one undivided half of section 19, township 36 north, range 7 west, in Lake county, and that the appellees, Andrew Peterson and Ingle Radstrom, were the owners of the other half, but that, by some title unknown to the appellant, they claimed to own the whole section, and praying that the title to one-half of said section might he quieted in him, and for partition.

Alfred Morrison was afterward, upon his own application, made a party defendant.

One trial of the cause was had in…