Godfrey v. Beardsley

OPINION OF

THE COURT.

This is an action of ejectment, brought by the lessor of the plaintiff, to recover possession of a section of land on the St. Joseph river. To establish his title, the plaintiff introduced in evidence an Indian treaty, of a cession of land, held at Chicago, between Lewis Cass and Solomon Sibley, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Ottawas, Chippewas and Pottawattamies, the 29th August, 1821. In this treaty, among other reservations of land, there was reserved to Pierre Moran, a Pottawattamie chief, one section of land. In the treaty it was provide ed,…