Mills v. Lockwood

This was a bill in chancery, exhibited in the Marshall Circuit Court by Balph Lockwood against Elisha S. Mills and others, to reform a deed and to enjoin proceedings in an action of ejectment, brought by the defendants against the complainant.

The plaintiffs in ejectment claimed the lands in controversy as heirs at law of Cephas Mills, deceased. The defendant therein claimed as a remote grantee of Joseph D. Beers, who, it was alleged, had a “ tax title” for the premises. He also claimed under conveyance from W. B. Green, who, as administrator of Cephas Mills, had obtained an order of the…