Kinzie v. Winston

This was an action of ejectment, brought to the September term, 1869, of the Cook circuit court, by Robert A. Kinzie against Frederick H. Winston, to recover the possession of lots one, two, three, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen in Kinzie’s addition to Chicago. The cause was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury, resulting in a judgment for the defendant.

To reverse this judgment the plaintiff appeals, assigning the usual errors.

The ground of the plaintiff’s claim to recover, as is shown by the record, was this: Kinzie, being the owner, by purchase from the United States, of…