Howe v. South Park Commissioners

The appeals taken by the several parties are all upon the same record, and have been submitted together, to be considered as one case. The original bill was filed February 11, 1871, by a part of the heirs of Benjamin Harris, who died intestate, in Iowa, in 1863, and who, it is alleged, was the owner of the lands in controversy. To that, bill the South Park Commissioners, James Stinson, and others, were made defendants. Some of the defendants to the original bill were defaulted, and others demurred, but before the cause came to a hearing the files were destroyed by fire, October 9, 1871.…